Announced earlier in the day, the custom knife winners were, by category:
•Best Tactical Folder: Sniper Bladeworks
•Best Fixed Blade: David Lisch;
•Yvon Vachon Best Miniature Award: Yoshio Sakauchi;
•Best Sword: David Mirabile;
•Best Damascus: John White;
•Best Art Knife: Steve Rapp;
•Best Collaboration: Bob Terzuola and Brian Fellhoelter;
•Best New Maker: David Sharp;
•Best Folder: Scott Sawby;
•Best Bowie: John White;
•Best Handle Design: E. Scott McGhee;
•Best Fighter: E. Scott McGhee;
•Best of the Rest: Steve Culver;
•Most Innovative Design: Grant and Gavin Hawk;
•Best Utility Hunter: Alan Hutchinson;
•Hugh Bartrug Best of Show Award: John White.
Also during the banquet, ABS master smith Wayne Goddard became the 50th inductee into the BLADE Magazine Cutlery Hall Of Fame©. Celebrating 50 years of making knives, Goddard parlayed the knowledge he’s gained in his knifemaking business into a second career writing about the process, including almost a quarter century as a columnist (Question & Answer, The $50 Knife Shop, Steels and more) for BLADE Magazine and as an author of several knife books, including The Wonder of Knifemaking.
