Favourite knife designer?

In no particular order: Bob Loveless, Jim Schmidt, Bill Moran, Shiva Ki, Al Mar, G&G Hawk, Ken Onion, Ethan Becker, Bo Randall, Spartan Knives, Jerry Busse, Bob Lum, Shane Sibert, Todd Begg, Tai Goo, Jack Crane, Tom Maringer, and many, many others.
 
From a knife I'd want to use perspective, I like Ben Orford's (Craftlab) knives a hell of a lot. Simple and beautiful and absolutely zero hype. His and his wife's aesthetic are as good as it gets for me. If I ever get around to buying a custom knife from another maker, it'll likely be one of his. But if I was going to buy some big nasty looking thing that I'd be afraid to use, my money is going to Shawn Hatcher. I could probably watch that guy brush his teeth and still learn something.
 
Les George
Bill Harsey
Bob Terzuola
Allen Elishewitz
Shane Sibert
Eric Ochs
Brad Southard
RJ Martin
Others I'm sure I'll remember after I post this....
 
Ken Erickson

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Todd Rexford first,
then Chris Reeve, Sal Glesser
Honorable mentions for strider and Ken Onion
 
Andre Thorburn
Sal Glesser
Mike Skellern
Mike Stewart
Grant and Gavin Hawk
Brad Zinkler
Jens Anso
Liong mah
 
I keep buying the BM Osborn designs. They are just elegant and practical at the same time.
 
Chris Reeve, Ernest Emerson, Rick Hinderer and Mike Stewart, assuming he designs all or most Bark River Knives. There are others whose work I admire by way of pictures but not having handled them, I can't say anything past praising their aesthetics.
 
a few more popular and a few that aren't seen as often but IMHO make terrific knives:
Sam Lurquin
Toni Oostendorp
Andrew Jordan
Lin Rhea
Jim Kelso
Dusty Moulton
Scott Sawby
Cronk
John Doyle
D'alton Holder
 
Warren Osbourne
Sal & Eric
D Sinkevitch
Elishewitz
Southard
Thorburn
D Ritter
A Demko........but mostly W Osbourne.
 
Adam DesRosiers

Burt Foster

Mike Snody

Ernest Emerson

Jason Knight

Daniel Winkler
 
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