New "Up and Coming" Custom Knife Makers

I've never owned or got to handle any of his work, only saw images.
Lovely work, as well as the apple falling off of the tree thing.

Kyle Hanson. :thumbup:

Doug
 
I'm not sure if it's kosher for a maker to have an opinion here. We tend to look at knives from a different perspective but we do collect and use some fine pieces by some talented makers. For what it's worth the knives that I wanted the worst and almost sprung for were folders by Andrew Meers and Shelby Mihalevich and integrals by Vero Laurent and John-Louis Regel, especially the little faceted ivory handled one in wootz. I still think about those knives...

-HD
 
DesRosiers said:
I'm not sure if it's kosher for a maker to have an opinion here. -HD
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Not only is it kosher, for you to add your opinion, I think Haley's name certainly belongs on any list of "up and coming" makers. I wish I had a photo to share but during Blade show Haley had a carved handle blackwood hunter that was amazing. I think she was still working on it during the CKCA dinner.

Although we could never make a complete list, I appreciate seeing everyone's comments about rising stars. Other than buying knives, I think one of the most important things we can do to help new makers is spread the word. Name recognition seems to be a very important aspects to a knife maker's success.
 
I see Ken Steigarwalt hasn't been mentioned yet.

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villageidiot said:
I see Ken Steigarwalt hasn't been mentioned yet.
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Ken is not up and coming. He has been making knives for over 30 years.....and is already there!
Don Hanson III said:
Patience grass hopper, it will happen.
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I think it is a valid statement, Don.

You are his father, and thusly, he will always be your child, but he is either a man and a maker independent from you, or he is a child, and will thusly, always be in your shadow....which begs the question, why purchase from a copy when you can purchase from the original?

Food for thought.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Kohai999 said:
I think it is a valid statement, Don.

You are his father, and thusly, he will always be your child, but he is either a man and a maker independent from you, or he is a child, and will thusly, always be in your shadow....which begs the question, why purchase from a copy when you can purchase from the original?

Food for thought.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
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I appreciate that Steven and I do think about it often. He is very new at this and he also does not jump when I tell him to sign up to Blade Forums. He does stuff at a much different pace than me. Much too slow I feel, but he seems to get stuff done. He worked all weekend to finish a knife to get in the mail today...

We build different style knives, in different price ranges, so there isn't really a copy. But I do see what you mean.

He was starting to get into the higher end pieces with damacus bolsters, mammoth scales, etc. But has backed off and focusing on the more utilitarian stuff again. Good move as far as I can see.

Thanks!
 
All of these have already been mentioned. Ben Seward makes a great bowie. ( Can hardly wait to see what I'm getting at Little Rock)
John Doyle makes a lot of hunters but he makes a damn fine bowie as well.
Vero Laurent and John-Louis Regel. I visited with these two at blade and was totally blown away with their workmanship.
Kyle Hanson as mentioned. He can make knives. I wish Don would adopt me.:D

Bing
 
the thing that always bothers me about threads like this is the knowledge of so many people who do outstanding work that go unmentioned.
To all those people, keep up the good work. You don't see your name? Doesn't mean much, don't let it get you down.

That being said, a couple more names to drop;
Ryan Weeks
Ben Tendick
Dave J. Friesen
Matthew Gregory
 
I was really impressed with the work of Denis Mura, Michael Henningsson, and Bill Tuch at the guild show. I'd never heard of any of them before, and their product was excellent. Denis does a variety of styles, from edgy tactical to hamon bowies. Michael's folders are super clean. Bill does Loerchner-esque art folders.
 
Jason Fry said:
I was really impressed with the work of Denis Mura, Michael Henningsson, and Bill Tuch at the guild show. I'd never heard of any of them before, and their product was excellent. Denis does a variety of styles, from edgy tactical to hamon bowies. Michael's folders are super clean. Bill does Loerchner-esque art folders.
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Bill Tuch is fairly well known.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
As a noob, there's such an overwhelming display of astounding work on this site that It's hard to tell who's up and coming, or who's the big boss of everything! All I can say is the knives by the gentleman who goes by Nighthaxan stand out to me and are pleasing to the eye, especially the last few I saw posted.
 
I think if we wanted to argue, we could all jump in and pick some names that have been mentioned and argue that they are not "up-and-coming." No fun in that to me.

Not even sure myself how to decide who is up-and-coming , but it seems by the time I really tune into them, they are beyond up-and-coming and on their way to came-and-went. LOL!

I am amazed by some younger makers who have already reached such pinnacles after a relatively few years and have so many years ahead of them (if they choose) to climb new summits while others at their same age and experience might still be considered up-and-coming. Some names that come to my mind in this category are Elizabeth Loerchner, Emmanuel Esposito, and Kyle Royer.
 
Hello!

There are probably too many to mention all of them here, but one that came to my mind the instant I read this, is Salem Straub. Lot's of creative vision and the skills to turn it into amazing knives.

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Best regards,
Alex
 
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