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Frederick, Aaron                          Aaron Frederick learned to make knives from John W. Smith and has been         - Custom Folding Knives                KMG
doing so since 1994.   He started making custom folding knives in 1996.  He        - Tactical Knives
uses the stock removal method and damasus from other skilled bladesmiths.   - Custom Folding Knives
Elishewitz, Allen                  Recon Marine, Martial Artisit and award winning knifemaker - has been           - Folding Knives                                  KMG
                                                                    making knives Since 1988 using the stock removal method with damasteel &    - Damascus Folding Knives
                                                                    RWL which are heat treated and double tempered. Great Investment Knives.   - Also Makes Pens and Watches! 
Hedlund, Anders                  Absolutely brilliant art knife designs, especially fancy folding art knives.          - Damascus Folding Art Knives
       *KMD Reccomended                      Commonly uses damascus by Mattias Styrefors, a fellow Swedish Knife             - Damasteel Presentation Fixed Knives
                                                                     Maker. Don't miss the prize winning "Tigerclaw" in his Knives for Sale!               - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Gallagher, Barry                      This may be one of the first names that comes to my mind when I hear the         - Art Folding Knife & Fixed Blades
                                                                    term "Art Knife".  Stunning, flawless work. Period. Especially when it comes      - Damascus & Steel Folding Knives
                                                                    to Damascus. Barry's attention to color, patterns and detail is truly unique.       - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Gardener, Barry                      Handforged knives from Austalia.  Barry Gardener's knives are simple and        - Custom Hunting Knife
                                                                    very clean in design while they also exhibit a high level of functionality. Like     - Skinners, Bowie knives, Daggers
        myself, Barry believes every knife should be an extension of the hand.        - Tanto Knives,  Custom Fighting Kife
Fiorini, Bill                           Bill Fiorini has 30+ years experiecne at working with Damascus Steel and - Custom Damascus Knives  KMG/ABS
*Teaches Knifemaking Classes!        has an acute knowledge of Japanese Sword Smithing techniques.  His styles       - Custom Folding Knives (Gentlemens)
  (See website for details!)                   exhibit those of  Japanese and European influence. Also makes chefs knives.       - Damascus Chefs Knives & Hunters
Engnath, Bob                           This page is a collaborative effort to bring the legacy that was Bob Engnath.       - Knifemaking The Engnath Way
  KMD "Awesome Site" Award!       There is TONS of information here concerning knifemaking techniques by           - Albums of knives dedicated to Bob
       Mr. Engnath, and albums of knives by those who were influenced by him           - More about Bob Engnath
Gatlin, Brett                      Brett Gatlin has been making knives since 2002.  He has went from using the      - Custom Bowie Knives           ABS
                                                                   stock removal method to forging his own blades and is truly into his work.         - Custom Hunting Knives               AKA
                                                                   He's a member of the ABS, and personally, I see a Master Smith in the making.    - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Fellhoelter, Brian           If your looking for something fresh - something new with a clean, crisp    - Tactical & Utility Folding Knives
         "KNIFE WERKS"                modern design, look no further.  Brian Fellhoelter won the "Best New Maker"     - Custom Autos (Check out the BC-1)
Best New Maker 2006 (BAKCA)     2006 award at the BAKCA show for a reason. We think it's because he is.   - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Evans, Bruce                      Bruce Evans has been an ABS Journeyman Smith since 2003, and has been          - Custom Hunting Knives                ABS
                                                                    making knives longer than I've been alive... literally.  You see, Bruce is the           - Fighting Knives & Bowie Knives
                                                                    kind of person who was born to forge... and for that, we are greatful!                     - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Frye, Bruce A.                  BAF Knifeworks evolved when Bruce Frye moved to Wyoming.  Since the age   - Hunting Knives & Sabers / Swords
       of 6, Bruce has been fascinated by "everything sharp" (sounds familiar!) These  - Neck Knives & Steak Knives
       are great knives!  Exceptional leatherwork, woodcarving and an eye for detail! - Combination Sets, Matched Sets
Gillespie, Bruce               Bruce Gillespie makes a variety of fixed blade knives, available as seen on the    - Hunting Knives & Skinners
        site, or customized to your preference.  Hunting knives, skinners, daggers and  - Custom Leather Sheaths
        more great for hunting, camping and the great outdoors!   - Handle Materials Available for Sale
Gaines, Buddy                 Buddy Gaines has been making fine custom knives since 1985.  He makes just    - Custom Folding Knives             GKMG
                                                                    about any kind of knife you can immagine.  The one thing they all have in           - Accepts Customer Design Requests!
                                                                    common: They're all worthy of the most particular collectors case.                         - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Foster, Burt                         ABS Master Smith Burt Foster makes knives that remind me just why I be-         - Hand Forged Bowie Knives          ABS
                                                                    came so interested in knife collecting in the first place. His knives are truly          - Daggers, Integrals & Hunting Knives
                                                                    one of a kind masterpieces, hand forged and gaurenteed to last a lifetime.             - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Evans, Carlton R.                 Carlton Evans makes exquisite custom knives that remind me of the old west.  - Custom Folding Knives                KMG
                                                                    His series - "The Cowboy," "The Cavalryman," and "The Gentleman," just to       - Damascus Folders & Fixed Blades
                                                                    name a few - are extraordinary! Evans has been making knives since 1967.         - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Gilbert, Chantal            Before beggining her journey as a custom knifemaker in 1991, Chantal Gilbert   - Custom Art Knives
                                                                   was a jeweler.  Having developed quite an eye for detail from working this          - Sculptural Knives
                                                                   trade, Chantal makes award winning custom art and sculptural knives. 
Gedraitis, Charles J.    Charles Gedratis is a probationary member of the KMG, but we all know he'll  - Liner Lock Folders      NCCA / NECKA
   "Best Custom Folding Knife"        be a voting member in no time! Just look at his work!  He began making knives  - Balisongs, Automatics & Slipjoints
Shenandoah Valley Show - 2004   at only 16.  At 30, his work is comprable to many who've been around longer!   - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Hallberg, Chuck           Chuck Hallberg has been making custom knives since 1991, using mainly D-2     - Custom Fixed Blade Knives
       and ATS-34.  Blades are professionally heat treated off-site and subjected to a    - Hunting Knives & Skinners
       cryogenic, sub-zero treating process to increase edge retention and strength.     - Tantos, Fighters & Bowie Knives
Holder, D'alton               Words alone can do no justice here.  Making knives for over 37 years,  D;alton   - Custom Hunting Knives               KMG
   "Knifemakers Hall of Fame"           has been president of a slew of organizations including the knifemakers Guild  - Custom Bowie Knives    AKCA / AKTI
                     2003                                      In 2003, he was inducted into the Knifemakers Hall of Fame. Awe Inspiring.       - Presentation Pieces & Daggers
Farr, Dan                              In 2001, Dan Farr took a knifemaking course under Master Bladesmiths,    - Hand Forged Custom Knives
           "Best New Maker"                     Roger Massey and Michael Conner.  Soon after, he won the "Best New Maker"    - Stock Removal Custom Knives
                BLADE Show                          award at the "Blade Show." Excellent hand forged & stock removal knives.          - Utility, Bowies, Hunters, Fighters
Graves, Dan                      Dan Graves makes hand forged, quality knives.  He uses several different   - Custom Damascus Knives
                                                                    steals and damascus to create some exquisite designs as well as period pieces    - Presentation Bowie Knives
                                                                    As he says, "I do custom work, your design or mine, knives guarenteed."    - Period Pieces Knives
Hockensmith, Dan       Dan Hockensmith has been making hi performance collectors knives for over   - Hand Forged Damascus Folders   ABS
                                                                    18 years.  He is a Journeyman Smith of the ABS and vows one day to qualify       - Damascus Bowie Knives & Hunters
                                                                    for Master Smith. Exquisitely hand forged knives by, "one mans hands."               - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Fronefield, Daniel         Daniel Fronefield's custom knives are from another planet... literally.  Daniel     - Hand Forged Meteorite Knives
             KMD Award                             specializes in incorporating some of the rarest and most interesting materials   - Meteorites Available for Sale
Best Meteorite Knife: "Midnight"    available into his knives - meteorites!  Knives fit for an extraterestial being!       - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Gray, Daniel                      Daniel Gray made his first knife in 1974, in the Navy. He is now a member of    - Custom Fixed Blade Knives           ABS
                                                                    the ABS, and makes a wide variety of knives, mostly fixed blades.  Daniel is        - Custom Bowie Knives
                                                                    a hunter, fisher and taxidermist, so he knows what sharp really means!              - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Ellis, Dave                            Dave Ellis began making knives in 1988 and is now an ABS Mater Smith,  He     - Custom Bowies & Fighters           ABS
                                                                    specializes in fighters and bowies mainly, but als turns out many other fine      - Custom Daggers & Boot Knives
                                                                    custom fixed blade knives.  His work is impecable - a true custom knifemaker.  - Hunting Knives & Persians
Evans, Dave                       Dave Evans has been making knives since 1999 and plans on becoming a full     - Custom Damascus Straight Knives
                                                                    time knifemaker once he retires from his job as a computer tech.  He makes a     - Custom Knives Available for Sale
                                                                    variety of fixed blade knives and stamps his blades with "Win Dancer"
Engel, David                     David Engel of the Engel Family Forge keeps knifemaking simple - and simp-      - File Knives & Plow Knives
                                                                    licity equals reliability.  We all know about "Swords to Plowshares," right?        - Rail Road Spike Knives
                                                                    David likes to turn plowshares into swords.  And I love a mean spike knife...      - Tomahawks
Hesser, David                  David Hesser of Night Owl Studios has made metalsmithing his life's work.        - Forged Meteorite Dagger
       he has been at his craft for over ten years, making fine art swords, daggers         - Hand Forged Tantos
       and sculptures.  His talent for forging steel and his eye for detail are amazing.   - Bowie Knives & Skinning Knives
Gates, Dean                                   Dean Gates began making knives because he always loved knives and there       - Knives by Dean Gates
                                                                    was no way he could own the knives he really wanted. Now he makes them      - Knives by Linda Gates
                                                                    himself, along with his wife Linda. Nice fighters and traditional tanto knives.    - Custom Fixed Blade Knives
Harvey, Dean                                Harvey Dean strives to use only the finest quality materials he can get in his    - Presentation Bowies & Hunters   ABS
         35 "Best" Awards for                 knifemaking.  He has been making knives since 1981 and forging since 1986. In - Folding Bowies, Dress Bowies, Folders
      Fourteen Years Straight!             1992 he became a Master Smith and was elected to the ABS Board in 2004.          - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Ealy, Delbert                                 Delbert Ealy started out as a knifemaker in 1986.  Soon after he discovered          - Hand Forged Damascus Steel
                                                                    damascus steel and has been forging his own since. He offers 19 different             - Custom Damascus & Bolsters
                                                                    patterns using O1-L6, pure Nickel and at times, meteorites. High demand.          - Mokume Gane Rings & Heat Treating
Fraley, Derek                                D.B. Fraley has been making knives part time since 1990 and became a voting    - Tactical Folding Knives                KMG
                                                                    member of the Knifemakers Guild in 2002.  He makes fixed blade knives and       - Tactical Fixed Blade Knives
                                                                    tactical folders and has several variations of about 8 designs to choose from.      - Custom Made Fighting Knives
Hagen, Doc Philip L.            Doc Philip L. Hagen has been making quality custom knives since 1973 and         - Custom Folding Knives                KMG
                                                                    has been a voting member of the KMG since 1976.  He has been forging steel       - Scale Release Folding Knives
                                                                   and Damascus blades since 1982.  Gorgeous Scale / Bolster Release Folders.          - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Ferdinand, Don                          Don Ferdinand is a true renaissance style bladesmith.  He forges his own            - Custom Fixed Blade Knives
                                                                    steel and Damascus and makes custom knives as well as other medievil style    - Antiquity Arms / Hand Cannons
                                                                    weapons including hand cannons. Also sells informative "how-to" videos.          - Bladesmithing Videos by Don
Fogg, Don                                        Don Fogg is one of thos names that, in the future if not already, will be known   - Samurai Swords & Daggers          ABS
   Excellent Bladesmithing Info!      throughout the world of custom knives as Loveless & Moran are known today. - Bowies, Shivs & Gentlemans Knives
  See Dons Collaboration Knives     He is a member of the ABS and for him, knifemaking is a way of life.                       - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Hanson, Don                                Don Hanson III began making knives as a hobby in 1980 and went full time in   - Custom Art Folding Knives          ABS
        25 "Best of" Awards                     1990.  Don, the "Sunfish Man" of Sunfish Forge is an ABS member who makes    - Custom Bowie Knives w/ Hamon
          in under 9 years!                        highly sought after custom art folders as well as large custom bowie knives.      - Custom Knives Available for Sale
Finlayson, Doug                        Doug Finlayson started making custom knives in 1980.  Since then, customers   - Custom Hunting & Fishing Knives
                                                                    around the world have enjoyed his fine work. Quality fixed blade knives at        - Your own Design & Blade Engraving
                                                                    very reasonable prices. Blades are 440 and ATS-34 Steel.  Engraving as well.       - Quality Kitchen Knives
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Halligan, Ed            Ed Halligan began making knives in 1985. In 1990 he joined the KMG. Soon he   - Classes at MCC in NC                     ABS
    Creator of the