Luiz Gustavo Gonçalves

The campfire kid from Campinas has been building toward this his whole life. Luiz Gustavo Gonçalves of Brazil earned the ABS Mastersmith designation in 2025, joining fewer than 200 artists worldwide to hold that title in the last 45 years. His knives are bold, technically rigorous, and unabashedly opulent, incorporating pure 24k gold, each forged entirely by hand at his one-person studio in Brazil.