Year: 2021

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

We wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part in Hoo Knives Charity Auction to raise money for the Royal British Legion.

Congratulations and a huge thank you to Mr R J. Stanley, the winner of our custom Hoo Knives V1 auction, Mr Stanley won with the extremely generous bid of £425 and all of the money has now safely been transferred into the hands of the Royal British Legion to help support serving and ex-serving members of the Armed Forces and their families.

We are extremely grateful for your support.

A special thank you to @copperwerks_ and @h.s_edc who helped turn the project into a reality, it couldn’t have been done without them.

Anyone who wishes to help support the fantastic work conducted by the Royal British Legion can donate or become a monthly supporter here – https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/

Kindest regards,

Hoo Knives.

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After selling out of the @hoo_knives V1 we have been inundated with messages and emails from people who missed out on the first production run so we wanted to put this update out to try and answer some of the most common questions we are receiving in this Q and A thread:

Q1. When will the next production run be made of the Hoo Knives V1?

A1. We are currently in talks with our manufacturer about producing a blackout version of the V1 and will update you all on a timeframe when we have more information, as for the Plain Jane version we will likely get a smaller number of around 50 along with the blackout run to try and accommodate anyone who missed out.

Q2. When will the V2 be released?

A2. Once we have handled the postage of the V1 to all our customers we will begin testing the V2 prototype and will keep you posted on any updates, due to us being a self-funded and a very small company we don’t have the capacity to run two production runs at once sadly.

Q3. Can I pre-order a V1 or V2?

A3. At this stage we will not be opening pre-orders up, this could be subject to change in the future but it’s likely we will wait until the production run is finished and landed with us before we open the doors again for purchase.

Q4. What’s the best way to find out when the next production run is available?

A4. The best way to keep up to date on when our next run will be ready is to sign up to our mailing list located on our website, alternatively, you can keep an eye on our social media pages as we always try to keep these as up to date as possible – everything posted on IG also makes its way to Facebook.

Hoo Knives is absolutely humbled by the response towards the V1 and would like to thank all our customers who put their faith and confidence in us all those months ago!

Hopefully, we will be able to accommodate everyone who wants a V1 and missed out on the first production run ASAP, we thank you for your patience.

We will continue to post updates as and when we get them to keep you all informed on the next steps.

Kindest regards,

Hoo Knives.

?We are absolutely delighted to announce our new @hoo_knives V1 prototypes have landed with us and out of factory testing now begins!

Here’s a rundown of the changes that we have made:

• The double detent system has been made stronger.

• Blade play we found on the previous prototypes has been eradicated on these models.

• Centring of the blades has been completely fixed.

• The pocket clip has been updated to a titanium construction.

• The pocket clip design has been slightly altered to allow for more ease when going over heavier cloths.

• The scales now allow for the pocket clip to be left and right-handed.

• Production models will have some slight changes as well, they will feature the ® symbol next to the Hoo Knives logo and will be numbered #001–#250 as opposed to the 001# shown in the prototype here.

We also got a blackout prototype to see how the design would turn out when blacked out!

We are very pleased with the changes that have been made and will continue to keep you all posted throughout the testing phase.

Again a huge thank you to everyone for your patience throughout the process, we are well and truly in the final stages now.

Kindest regards,

Hoo Knives.

Info@hooknives.com

We are very pleased to let you all know that Hoo Knives has been approved as a British authorised dealer of both Civivi and We Knife.

We are hoping to have some goodies in stock within the next few months on our website shop, so keep your eyes peeled if it interests you and I would be more than happy to keep you all posted when the first stock arrives if you would like me to do so!

Along with our own unique designs, this means we can offer you a larger variety of products for your EDC – Please do not think this takes any of my focus away from getting your V1’s to you, this is our foremost priority before anything else. ?

Kindest regards,

Hoo Knives.

Production for the first run of the Hoo Knives V1 is nearing its end – here’s a look at some of the knives. ?‍♂️?

Not long now! We are still waiting to receive the updated prototype before the final approval of this production run (these should be sent to us at the start of next week) once we have these in hand we will be posting much more updates to keep you all informed.

In other news, we should also be receiving some V2 prototypes around the same time as the V1’s updated prototypes land with us.

We may even have a surprise to show you all when the new prototypes do land with us. ?

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Again a huge thank you to each and every one of you who has pre-ordered or supported us, it would not have been possible without you. ?

We are quickly approaching the final hurdle!

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us via info@hooknives.com or our social media pages, we do our best to reply to all feedback and comments and are always interested in what you have to say!

Kindest regards,

Hoo Knives.

Info@HooKnives.com

We are very pleased to announce that we have now started the prototyping stage for our second design.

Before starting the process we added a sharpening choil and deep carry ambidextrous pocket clip to the design.

One of the key features of this design is a completely removable and adjustable thumb stud to allow for the user to carry their way.

Titanium scales and pocket clip with an S35VN blade is the current configuration we will be taking to the prototype stage.

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Unlike the Hoo Knives V1, the back-spacer of this design is not integrated into the scales to allow for potential customisation.

A major thank you to everyone who has shown their support or interest in our designs.

Don’t worry this will not impact the production of our Hoo Knives V1 and we are still on schedule.

Stay posted for more updates to come and possibly a few surprises along the way.

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Kindest regards,

Hoo Knives.

Info@HooKnives.com

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are delighted to announce we have started the production process for the Hoo Knives V1 and the first batch of 250 knives should take 70 days to make.

Production is on schedule as planned and before the final approval, we will be receiving two more samples with a few minor changes these include a stronger detent and ambidextrous pocket clip function. 

The Hoo Knives V1 will come in its box with a small carry pouch, cleaning cloth, stickers and specification/ unique number card.

In a major milestone, we reached over 100 pre-orders for the V1 and have been blown away by the support shown for us as a new player in the scene. 

We will keep you posted with more updates on social media, you may even have seen some of our other design concepts. 

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A major thank you to everyone who has already pre-ordered, it means a lot that so many of you have put your faith in us and the Hoo Knives V1 design. 

Your patience and support are greatly appreciated. 

Kindest regards,

Hoo Knives.

info@hooknives

Dear ladies and gentlemen,

Yesterday marked one week since the Hoo Knives V1 prototype landed with us for testing.

Since then we have been putting the knife through its paces, testing the structure and the blade steel.

As testing has ramped up we have sliced our way through paper, cardboard, carpet, medium-density fibreboard and many vegetables, the edge is holding nicely so far, we have been posting lots of videos and pictures of the progress to our Instagram page and story.

Testing continues and the M390 steel + structure is holding up very well so far! It will be taking another beating over the next few days and we will keep you posted with more post and story updates on social media.

The cutting-edge of Hoo Knives V1 is 2.88”, ideally the blade is also under 3” from hilt to tip when the blade is deployed.

The weight of our Hoo Knives V1 prototype is just over 98 grams, an ideal EDC carry weight in our view.

Not too heavy but enough weight to know you have a substantial bit of kit in your pocket or hands.

We disassembled the knife yesterday and gave it a well deserved wee clean after the week of torment it’s had to endure.

We will continue testing and keep you posted on our story and feed throughout the week.

We appreciate your patience throughout the process and hope you have enjoyed our first week of testing with the updates we have been putting out.

To give you an idea of the time frame we are currently looking at, after we complete testing and signing off on the prototypes, we will move into the production stage.

Once production is in place it will be 70 days for the knives to be made and assembled + shipping/postage to the UK and then to the customer.

Once again I would like to thank you all for your continued patience and support throughout the process it’s been humbling, to say the least. ?

Kindest regards,

Hoo Knives.

Info@HooKnives.com

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, the V1 prototype is enjoying testing so far!

Hardware wise this is all you need to strip the prototypes down completely and should be all that’s needed for the production run ?‍♂️

The pivot and scale screws are TORX T6 with the pocket clip and liner screws being Hexagon 2.0 ?

So far the steel is holding up well with our light cut tests, cuts through stuff like chopping butter! ?

Throughout the week we will ramp up the pressure on cutting tests putting it through much heavier use and you can follow our progress on Instagram here – https://www.instagram.com/hoo_knives/

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Kind regards,

Hoo Knives