Favourite knife designer?

Number 1 is Loveless. The rest can be in any order: Sal Glesser, Jake Hoback, Lucas Burnley, Bill Harsey, Andre de Villiers.
 
Alan Davis
Andrew Demko
Rick Hinderer
That is just to name a select few of many great makers.
Kevin 😊👍
 
Reese Weiland
Darrel Ralph
Rob Dalton

And obviously, Fred Perrin.
 
Michele Pensato (Molletta) - I have yet to see one of his designs I didn't like.
Jerry Busse
Jesper Voxnaes
Jens Anso
Ken Onion
 
Well I think it is very obvious to almost everyone here that I have no business posting in this thread since I know almost nothing about High End Knives and makers and only recognize a couple-few of the names in all these illustrious (and educational) lists of designers.

I see a lot of nodding heads . . . oh, OH . . . and a few hand jesters.

Alright already; I'll get to the point. This thread made me want to go look up who it was that I had read that designed or helped design the Cold Steel Ti Lite and learn more about him. I have been drawn to that knife of late because of the roundish, somewhat slender and SCULPTED handle. Yes, yes it is a bad ass knife but honestly it was the handle that has been doing it for me. Some/most say it is UN ergonomic and so one of the ?many? reasons it is not a good or useful EDC. I'll buy that (well I bought two actually hahaha) but seriously I'm out to fool around with that knife and mod it to be more EDC BECAUSE I think the handle has a lot of potential in that department at lest for me. Yah, OK you say "Go some place else and start a thread and tell someone who cares". I will but allow me a minute to ask "Who likes Phil and demonstrate why, just today mind you I learned something of his work and was surprised that he has already GONE where I was thinking of going . . . with the Ti Lite and with a knife similar to the Griptillian. AHHHHHH I see I have finally said a knife that has some respect here or there.

SO
The designer I have been banging on about is :
Phil Boguszewski

I was considering rehandleing the Ti Lite with titanium sculpted scales with longitudinal grooves.
He did it. With the Ti Lite and with other somewhat similar knives.





I included this one because I thought it was cool and futuristic without being post-apocalyptic.



My next mod or dream knife I have been . . . well . . . dreaming about is the Griptillian but with Titanium SCULPTED scales . . . he was working with a very similar knife which, apparently was one of his signature and most popular styles.


On the titanium Griptillian I was thinking of putting a "riffled" texture on it and don't you know . . . he's been there done that. So I have to say . . . Ti Lite or not . . . sleeping with Cold Steel or not . . . he may be one of my favorite designers.
 
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The genius mind behind Ganzo and sanrenmu. So many innovative original ideas.
 
Harold Kit Carson
James B Lile
Michael Walker
Walter Brend
others have been already mentioned
 
Bob Terzuola, Fred Perrin, Ernest Emerson, Andrew Demko, Allen Elishewitz, few others and... me. :D
 
As to the last question in the OP...Hinderers are far easier to acquire now than before...and they have done special knives for foreign allies (for example the Zurich SWAT model) so odds are they will do a direct mil. sale. But, many dealers carry better inventory lately so direct buy may not be a necessary adventure.
 
Michal Gavak is mine. I've only been able to score one of his blades so far, but everything he makes is sexy and very well thought out. He's one of the makers who understands that thinner = sharper. A lot of the stuff he turns out is ground practically to zero, with no secondary bevel - and that's with blades ranging from his Raptors, little pocketable fixed blades, all the way up to his Excalibur bush sword - a massive 2 foot long, 3/8" thick chopper. He's got a video of it in action where he chops through what looks like a 4x4 post in three hits with it.
 
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