A custom hunting knife, with the edge geometry matched to the steel will be no comparison in performance to a production knife. Yes my knife will cost more than the Gerber or Buck, but you will get your moneys worth in the advanced performance alone, not to mention the fact that you get to choose your materials to suit your tastes. I really enjoy and have learned a lot from reading the articles on Phil Wilson's website. This is a man that makes high performance fillet and hunting knives from the most high performing steels, and he grinds them "Thin to Win". Just seeing the cutting tests that Ankerson has performed on his knives makes me a complete believer in "super steels". It was the reading on Phil's site that pushed me to get some S90V to try the first time and I have been blown away by it's performance. I love playing with steels and edge geometry to get Crazy Cutters. I have a S90V boning knife that is under .010" behind the edge and you never feel it go through the meat, you just know that it has hit the cutting board. I loaned several of my knives out this past deer season so some of my non knife nut friends could see how much better the performance is with a custom. Two of my neighbors gave up their S30V knife to buy an O1 knife of mine. That tells me there that it does not have to be a super steel to be a super performer.
