Custom knife cover sizing

Measure one thing: blade length

Blade length is heel to tip — from where the sharpened edge starts near the handle, straight to the point. Not the overall length with the handle, and not along the curve. That one number puts your knife in a size band:

• Small — paring and utility knives up to 5".
• Medium — chef's knives 6"–8". Most home-kitchen chef's knives, gyuto and santoku land here.
• Large — chef's and slicing knives 9" and up.

Covers run $40–$50 depending on size, plus $8 flat US shipping however many are in the order.

The size band is coarse. The photo is the real measurement.

Two 8" chef's knives can have completely different profiles — a tall German blade, a flat gyuto, a santoku with a dropped tip. A cover sized only by length would fit all of them equally badly. So the size band just sets the blank; the actual shape comes from a photo of your knife on a sheet of printer paper. The paper is the ruler — it is a known size, so the photo gives us your blade's true outline, and the cover is cut from glued-up Baltic birch to match it.

That is why there is no size chart to squint at and no "measure the spine height at the heel" homework. One photo, taken the way the photo guide shows, carries every measurement that matters.

Edge cases

• Right on a boundary? A 5.5" petty or an 8.5" chef's knife: pick the larger band. The photo sets the final fit either way.
• Unusual shapes — cleavers, curved boning knives, anything you are not sure about: email hello@swanyaycrafts.com with a photo first and we will tell you honestly whether we can cover it.
• Several knives? Each cover is cut for one specific knife — one knife per photo, one cover per knife.

Ready to size yours?

Pick the band, shoot the photo, done — start an order. If you are still weighing a fitted cover against a clip-on guard, read knife edge guard vs saya.