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Who are the best known custom knifemakers?

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Love seeing all the names, I hope this list grows and grows

-Lists like these should Really be two lists, in my opinion....

Best Knife Makers, and Best Knife Designers.... sometimes, 2 totally different things!!!
 
Crag the Brewer said:
Love seeing all the names, I hope this list grows and grows

-Lists like these should Really be two lists, in my opinion....

Best Knife Makers, and Best Knife Designers.... sometimes, 2 totally different things!!!
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Agreed. Some of my favourite designers aren't even really that prolific in actually making knives.
 
Short list
Joe Watson
Audra Draper
James Behring
Jim Behring
Rocco
Josh Fisher
Karis Fisher
Ken Brock
Brian Nawrocki
 
As I was coming of age in the mid 1960s ( HS Class Of '69), I don't think there were many (or any) well known custom knife makers. Then, that field seemed to exp[lode in the 1970s. It may be that as I became an adult, I became aware of the. However I rather tank it ws as I remembered it.

My first awareness of fine, customs knife making was an article in one of the gun magazines, perhaps "Guns and Ammo" . . .maybe that was 1971 . Then there was the publication of "Knife World" that documented The Blade Show and featured knives by Warenski, Lyle and Loveless among others. That is how I recall my early awareness of modern custom knife making.

Any knife historians out there?
 
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