Product Category: ED VAN HOY DESIGNS

Ed Van Hoy has been making custom knives since 1975, specializing in folding and fixed blade Damascus designs. His home and studio are in Abingdon, Virginia. Ed is a member of the North Carolina Knifemakers’ Guild and a voting member of the American Knifemakers’ Guild. He received a degree in the art of metal engraving from Montgomery Community College. He has received multiple awards for his highly creative and unusual knife designs, including Best Hunting Knife at the Southeastern Custom Knife Show in 1999, and Most High Tech Design at the Paris, France Knife Show in 2002. He was winner of the A.G. Russell award for the Most Innovative Knife at the Knifemakers’ Guild Show in 2002. The CRKT production Snap Lock was named 2004 Overall Knife of the Year by Blade magazine. Ed is also designer of the CRKT Snap Fire, 2005 Blade magazine Imported Knife of the Year. He is designer of our new On Fire and co-designer of the new K.I.S.S. Two-Timer twin blade folder.