These are all very nice in this category. And the final choice for me came down to two knives. The main thing I had to use ultimately to decide was difficulty of construction. In that light, I had to choose Randy Haas, HHH Knives.
Randy executed a beautiful feather pattern but also used full integral construction with a tapered tang. Pretty high on the difficulty scale to build this and that put it over the edge for me.
Congrats though to all the nominees. They are all very nice.