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Married 'mesters' crafting knives in the shed
The Star, Sheffield
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09/07/2025
Steven and Kylie Cocker, described themselves as a "little mester" and a "lady mester".
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yeah yeah it's just that we enjoy doing it and well that's how we work it too
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yeah and it's keeping the trade going and we both enjoy it so yeah no we like
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working together well we make bespoke old Sheffield patterns so we'll get like
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from an old pattern book pick a pattern we like to do and design it like draw
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around it make every single part and just recreate it the old traditional
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Sheffield way. Little Mester was someone who worked in a small little workshop
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similar to this but worked for did work for bigger firms so they were like like
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an out worker but they focus on say like making pocket knives or putting handles
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on knives grinding and then they do it for the bigger firms so they were like
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the Little Mesters the machines I've inherited from cutlers I've worked with
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I've saved them from the scrap so I've worked with various Little Mesters and
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when they've come to retire instead of just saying like get rid of it pass it on
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to me yeah it's a bit of both yeah yeah it's just that we enjoy doing it and well
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it's how we work it too yeah and it's keeping the trade going and we both enjoy it so yeah
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no we like working together in my family we've had knife makers silversmiths always
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working in Sheffield I think your family have as well yeah so we're still doing my
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family tree but my family's Haywood so I could be related to Joseph Haywoods who
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were knife makers as well and their emblem was a teapot well I liked it my dad used to
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run to workshop on Sylvester Street in an old cuddly works and I just enjoyed
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watching the old like people making scissors knife makers and it was just
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something I was just drawn to so I was about nine year old me and my dad made my
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first knife yeah I've made a few like exhibition knives one in particular I made
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they went on display in the Millennium in the in Kalamana Museum sadly stolen when
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they had a break in along with some others but that was a 14 piece like
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exhibition knife but I've made others for I made Tony capstick one who was a BBC
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radio Sheffield presenter and some other people I've made so yeah made quite a few
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for several people yeah I think it has yeah especially where we where we were we it
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used to be Eggington's and they've just been taken over by Durham Duplugs and
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they're focusing on traditional handmade knives all made in Sheffield and every
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part back again still done in Sheffield yeah I think they could I mean it's it'd be
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difficult to build up certain equipment that you'll be able to pick certain
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things up and it's get to know who you know but no if people are interested in
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there's there's many people out there will be able to help them to encourage
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them be inspired by Stan Shaw I knew Stan Shaw very well Trevor Ablett and then
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there's another guy called Frank Carr you were brilliant bow knife maker I've
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known them personally they've always I inspired me to to make knives
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