I've purchased a few customs lately through the Exchange, so had to resurrect this thread.
1. TGLB for scale.
2. Brush Creek fillet knife in AEBL. 7.5" blade, 0.04" thick. It's super flexible, good for trout which is what I bought it for. I went for AEBL because it's a razor blade steel, with great edge stability at very thin geometry which is what a fillet knife needs.
3. Tony Mont camp knife in 80CrV2. 6.5" blade, 0.16" thick. 80CrV2 isn't INFI, but its right up there at the top in toughness. Clay hamon with a burned oak handle... I love the pure simplicity and functionality of this knife. Full flat grind, and it came hair-shaving sharp. This looks like (and will probably be used as) a kitchen knife, but is tough enough to baton through hardwood.... you can't do that with most kitchen knives.
4. Shannon Steel Labs Apex EDC in Vanax. 3.5" blade, 0.18" thick. Vanax seems to be the best stainless available, or at least is a top candidate for that position, and is very hard to find in a fixed blade knife. It has the edge holding of m390, is tougher than elmax, and more stainless than either m390 or elmax. This is in fact the actual knife tested on the Cedric and Ada youtube channel, and had pretty insane edge retention and stability when cutting rough material (rope). It is reground and sharpened to a 17 degree per side mirror finish by Pete at Cedric and Ada and is really damn sharp! I would love to see Busse, Swamp or Yard produce something in Vanax !!
5. Darrin Sanders clip point in cpm-10V, at 63RC. 3.25" blade, 0.118" thick. It is very, very sharp! With the extreme edge retention of 10V and at such a high RC it should stay sharp in the field just about forever.