Arno Bernard

The Arno Bernard Knives workshop is situated in the outskirts of a South African town called Bethlehem. In addition to the four Bernards, there are also 8 employees who help create the knives. This includes Ruan's wife, Nicolene, CFO.

Each Bernard has a specific role to play in the crafting and producing of the knives. Arno Bernard is the CEO of the company and works with product development and CNC machining. Franco supervises the grinding team, new product design, and product testing. Juan heads up the handle division and maintenance, and Ruan is the Operations Manager and project coordinator. Of course, all of the brothers have some role in the actual hand finishing of the knives and sheaths.

Hunting is a specialised sport, and for that, you need special tools. Firstly, when it comes to hunting knives, bigger isn’t necessarily better. It all depends on the size of the animal you wish to hunt. A big knife is useless when dressing small game, as you can easily imagine. Someone hunting deer will have a different job for their knife compared to someone hunting rabbits. A quality hunting knife should be versatile enough to do everything the average hunter needs plus a little bit more.