About Us

Based in Ayer, Massachusetts, R. Murphy Company is a 160 year-old leading manufacturer of a diverse range of hand-crafted specialty knives used for food preparation, fishing/shell fishing, hunting, boating, outdoor activities, carving, construction and myriad industrial and professional applications.  The very finest steels are carefully developed into blades that are accurately hardened and tempered, precision ground, polished and hand honed.  R. Murphy's history has yielded tremendous product knowledge and manufacturing expertise allowing us to produce superior and competitively priced "Stay Sharp" knives to our customers.


R. Murphy Co. has been making knives for over 160 years.  Please check out our company history on the tab above.  

These are copies of pages from catalogs that are over 100 years old!


We manufacture over 200 kinds of high quality knives.  Please click on the aerial photo of the factory in the upper right to be directed to our website.

Our knives are MADE in the U.S.A.



R. Murphy Knife Co., Inc.
13 Groton-Harvard Rd., Ayer, MA  01432
Phone:  888-772-3481
Fax:  978-772-7569
Web: rmurphyknives.com  (note the "r" before "murphy")
Inquiries:  info@rmurphyknives.com