Terms of Use

This page says how I work: how an order comes about, what happens when, and what you are entitled to. It applies to everything I sell through this site.

Who I am

Daniele Mauro — sole proprietor, registered craft business
Via Gosi 9, 12083 Frabosa Sottana (CN), Italy
VAT no. 02935080040 — REA CN-248810, Cuneo Chamber of Commerce
Register of Craft Businesses no. CN-81937 — trading since 2 May 2003
info@fabbroforgiatore.com — certified email (PEC) fabbroforgiatore@pec.it

I work alone. There is no warehouse, no shopping cart and no finished pieces on a shelf: every knife begins with a request.

How an order comes about

1. You write to me. Through the contact form or straight to the address above. You tell me which knife you are interested in and in which version.
2. We come to an agreement. We settle the details — steel, finish, sheath, compass, anything made to your wishes — and I confirm the total price, the shipping cost and the timescale.
3. You confirm with a deposit. The deposit counts as confirmation of the order, and it is the moment the contract is concluded.
4. I work. I keep you up to date as the work goes on.
5. Balance and shipping. When the piece is finished I ask you for the balance, shipping included, and I send it.

The contract is concluded at a distance, in writing, by email: what we write to each other is part of the agreement, and you would do well to keep it as I keep it.

Prices

The prices shown on the knife pages are starting prices for the standard version: anything made to your wishes can raise them, and I tell you before.

Prices include VAT and apply to every destination, in Italy as abroad.

Shipping is not included and is added to the balance: it depends on the destination and on the service chosen, and I tell you when we settle the order. Any duties and import taxes are yours to pay (see below).

The deposit

The deposit is 50% of the total, unless we agree otherwise, and it covers the costs I take on as soon as I start: materials, tools specific to that piece, and the time I set aside for your work.

The deposit is not returned if you pull out after confirming, for the reason given above: from that moment the material is bought and the work is committed to a piece made to your requests, which I cannot simply sell to somebody else.

I return the deposit in full if I am the one who fails to deliver, or if the knife has manufacturing defects that make it unusable.

Timescales

As a rule it takes five to seven months from confirmation of the order. I make one piece at a time and the queue grows or shrinks with the requests that come in, so it is a general indication and not a promise.

The term that counts is the one I give you at confirmation, worked out from the jobs I have in hand at that moment: I write it to you together with the quote, before you pay the deposit.

If along the way I see that I will not make the agreed date, I tell you at once. In that case you tell me by when you need it and I do what I can to be in time; if I cannot manage even then, you cancel and I return in full everything you have paid.

Right of withdrawal: why it does not apply here

As a rule someone who buys at a distance has fourteen days to change their mind. On the knives I make there is no such right, and the law says so expressly for goods «made to the consumer’s specifications or clearly personalized» (Article 59(1)(c) of the Italian Consumer Code).

The reason is a practical one: a knife built to your specifications — your steel, your finish, your sheath, sometimes your number — is not a stock product that can come back and go out again to another customer.

I am telling you here, before you order, because that is how it has to be told: if I did not tell you beforehand, the right of withdrawal would stand.

If instead it happens that I have a piece already made and not personalized, and you buy it as it is, then the fourteen-day right of withdrawal applies as normal: I will tell you so in that case.

Guarantee

If you are a consumer you have two years of legal guarantee of conformity from delivery (Articles 128 ff. of the Italian Consumer Code). If the knife does not conform to what was agreed you can ask me to repair or replace it and, if neither is possible, for a price reduction or for the contract to be terminated. This guarantee cannot be excluded: no line on this page limits it.

On top of that, every knife goes out with my certificate, and I put five years on it: a craftsman’s piece, made by hand in Italy, guaranteed five years from delivery against manufacturing defects. It is a guarantee I give in addition to the one required by law — not instead of it, and it limits nothing.

Five years because a knife made this way, if it is made well, lasts a lifetime: if there is a manufacturing defect, it shows up long before. Should it come out after the five years, write to me anyway and we will see how to sort it out together.

It does not cover sharpening, normal wear, rust from lack of care, changes made by others, or improper use: they are knives meant to be used, but they remain tools to be looked after.

Delivery and risk in transit

The risk of loss or damage in transit stays with me until the parcel is physically in your hands.

The only case in which the risk passes to you is when you yourself engage a carrier that I did not offer you — your own freight forwarder, a courier you send to collect. There my part ends the moment I hand the parcel over.

The details are on the Shipping page, which forms part of these conditions.

Import, customs, local law

I ship worldwide, but the rules on knives change from country to country, and sometimes change over time.

It is your responsibility to check that the knife you order can be freely imported and kept where you live. If you are in any doubt, write to me before ordering: tell me where you are writing from and we will work out together what can be worked out — but the final check remains yours, because it is the law of your own country that governs.

Duties, import VAT and customs charges in the country of destination are yours to pay and are not included in the price.

If a parcel is held or seized by customs under a local rule that forbids that kind of knife, I cannot refund the knife: it is a circumstance that depends on your country and that you could have checked beforehand.

Age

I sell only to adults. By placing an order you declare that you are eighteen or over.

In Italy these knives may be kept freely, but carrying them outside your own home without good reason is forbidden by the weapons law (Italian Law 110/1975). Where you live, different rules may apply.

Intellectual property

The texts and photographs on this site are mine: you may quote them stating the source, but not republish them as though they were yours.

Some images are an exception, and are marked as such in their caption: they show Jimmy Lile’s original knives and I did not take them. The ones of the 1of13 are Kyle’s, who owns the original and gave me his permission. Others I gathered over years of research and they have no author known to me: I publish them for descriptive purposes, at low resolution, and they do not appear in the site’s image sitemap. If you recognize a photograph of yours, write to me: I will credit it with your name or take it down, whichever you prefer.

The names Rambo, First Blood and Mission are used to refer to the films and to the original knives my work takes its inspiration from. Lile is a registered trademark of Lile Knives, LLC. I am not affiliated with any holder of these names, I do not operate under license, and I am not authorized or sponsored by anyone. The knives I make are my own work, they carry the MAURO engraving, and they are sold as such.

If something is wrong

Write to me at info@fabbroforgiatore.com, or to the certified address fabbroforgiatore@pec.it if you would rather there be a formal record. I answer myself. I would rather sort things out by talking: from 2003 to today that has always been enough.

Governing law and jurisdiction

Italian law applies.

If you are a consumer, the court of the place where you reside or are domiciled has jurisdiction over any dispute, and no clause on this page can take that right away from you. If you buy as a business, the court of Cuneo has jurisdiction.

These terms are also available in Italian. In the event of any discrepancy between the two versions, the Italian version prevails.

Changes

I may update this page. What always applies is the version in force at the moment you confirm the order, the one in front of you when you pay the deposit.

Last updated: 26 August 2026.