I’m wondering what company has the best anodized designs, (regardless of whether they do it themselves or not). I would say MonkeyfingeR. The Evil Yo and the Gelada have blown me away.
I love MFD’s ano jobs, but I think One Drop just steps it up a little more. Their acid washes are amazing and then they add beautiful splashes. A couple of MonkeyFinger’s splashes are outrageous and just end up looking ugly. Most of the colorways, such as the YYE edition Evil Yo, are beautiful. It’s a tough decision but I’m gonna go with One Drop on this one.
Depends what you’re after. For splashes CLYW/OD/G2 are nice, for really fancy art-like work MonkeyFinger is great, for solids ILYY does gorgeous work. C3 and YYR are great at that vibrant mirror-like ano as well.