Who the heck is Bud?

 

 

Brandyn ‘Bud’ Heyser is the freewheeling creative who owns and makes 13 Knives. Bud left his “birth-hole” in Kentucky in 2013 and drove a home-built motorcycle 12,500km – without maps or GPS – across the United States. Landing in Melbourne in 2015, he spent two years creating furniture for one of the city’s most talked-about designers, Earl Pinto. But knife-making was never far from Bud’s mind, and in 2017 he followed his father and grandfather – and his natural calling – to a forge on Easey Street.

Today, Bud runs an always-open business next door to Paradise Alley – where clients can “drop in anytime and talk knives over a beer”.

Product Photography: Greg Holland  & Berto - Portraiture: Laurence James