Utility Knife 125mm

IO Shen

Price not listed

This 125mm / 5″ utility knife is paired with a slender handle and a tapered blade. It is perfect for fine slicing or cubing small quantities of meat or fish or herb and garlic preparation. It may be a small knife but it can tackle the hardest of food stuff! I.O. Shen knives offer a unique blend of Japanese and Western sensibilities, setting them apart from the traditional Japanese knife. Sure, their Triplex Steel Technology is a marvel, but the design elevates them to another level. A Western Touch: Most Japanese knives are known for their lightweight build and handles crafted from metal, bamb

IO Shen's own words, read from their page.

We don't have a buying link for this one yet.

What makes it worth buying

steel name Triplex Steel Technology
maker I.O. Shen

Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as I.O.Shen Knives UK Limited, number 11074702. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "I.O.Shen, Moonbeam House, Ledbury Road, Dymock, GL18 2AG" — names a location but no site or process, so this corroborates uk_hq more than operations. Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Designed in the UK, made abroad
The maker states: I.O.Shen knives are designed in the UK by expert knife designer and owner, Natalie Clifton, or they're collaborations with some of the UK's best chefs and then manufactured in Japan. Source. Their words, not ours; we have not independently verified it.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.

Technical details

blade profile	utility
blade length mm	125

Taken from the maker's own page. Anything they don't state is left out rather than guessed, which is why this table is shorter than you might expect.