Desk Knife: Brass

$78.00

Born from the Japanese kindashi knife but recontextualized for the contemporary workspace, the Brass Desk Knife asks to live among your daily tools. In solid brass that warms to touch and patinas with time, it moves with quiet precision through paper, board, and boxes, then rests peacefully among your pencils.

Craighill works in Brooklyn, navigating the space between industrial process and considered design. Their tools carry the weight of utility without the burden of excess – this knife among them. Each one leaves their workshop as a simple answer to a complex question, solving small problems through objects that last.

Part of our Craighill edit and Making Tools collection.

Designer
Craighill (designed in NY)
Materials
Solid Brass
Dimensions
5.25" x .625"
Weight
4.5 oz
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These carefully chosen and crafted pieces represent a considered mix of the esoteric and the highly pragmatic. Many of these simple things reflect the hand of the artisan or the quiet genius of the inventor. They are useful in ways that are difficult to quantify but, if pressed, we would say they make life a little more efficient and a lot more beautiful.
Morgan 08/12/2025

I keep it on my entryway front table. It makes opening my cardboard boxes feel like a chic, dignified activity. A far cry from the feral raccoon rip-and-tear-and-cut-with-a-kitchen-knife scenario I was used to before this purchase. 10/10!

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