Best slicing performance

The Buck Mayo TNT has a thin blade and grind. It had one of the sharpest edges out of the box that I've seen.
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At one time, Benchmade had a pretty poor reputation for cutting ability. Lately, they seem to have turned that around. All my BM's have had good geometry and came from the factory with edges that would at least shave. The geometry is on par and sometimes passes Spyderco, though they are typically more expensive in the lower to medium price ranges. My TSEK replacement blade will whittle hair from the factory. The Rukus blade shape is similar to the Ares and some others. I dont want to carry the TSEK anymore due to discontinued model, but a Griptilian seems to be in my future.
 
My Spyderco Calypso Jr in zdp189. Next to that is my Al Mar Hawk. Both have flat grinds on the blade and that's probably what makes them slice the best.
 
Another vote for the Spyderco Military.
I love my Sebenza, but the flat grind on the Mili out slices it.
 
I might have to reconsider my best slicer, as my Krein is insanely good, but my Takeda 240mm Gyuto in Super Blue near 64 RC has a paper thin edge that was 4.5 degrees per side from the maker. It was shaving sharp, nothing exceptional for sharpness from the factory, but the cutting ability was unreal. It simply blew me away with how easily it dispatched of vegetables and meat in ways I didn't think were possible. See through thin pieces of meat from a roast, lopping a watermelon in pieces so easily, chopping up veggies with unreal ease, the cutting ability was just astounding with the mediocre (as is standard for most Japanese Chef's knives) edge from the maker. When I polished the edge to 400000 grit at 4 per side holy crap is it amazing what this knife can do! It now has a 10 per side microbevel to try to minimize edge blowouts from hitting a bone or hitting the cutting board too hard, but that knife is actually good enough at cutting to scare some people like my father in law when he picked it up to chop some onions for tacos. My father in law was shocked after using it, going on and on about how that was the sharpest knife he has ever used and was afraid of cutting himself badly with it. The funny thing is it wasnt even that sharp at the time, it was the geometry doing the cutting. I didn't want him to use the knife because with that knife it will rust by looking at it funny and blow out the edge with one off kilter cut, but it came out unscathed. I must say though, that has to be one of the greatest chef's knives ever with it's great cutting ability and versatility. I use it for basically everything except a paring knife.

Mike
 
bchan77 said:
400000 grit! How did you do that? :eek:
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It is a rough estimation of my .05 micron 3M lapping film. I have been told that .25 grit is about 80000 grit, so .05 micron would be somewhere around 400000 grit. Yes, it is an insanely fine grit, so to me the actual grit doesn't matter much, but I can tell you at .05 microns the finish is EXTREMELY polished. I am going to start using diamond spray soon and it's mere .25 micron final grit. Truthfully on most of my harder steels it will leave a better finish because the diamonds should cut faster and better than my .05 micron Aluminum Oxide lapping film. I guess we'll see when the diamonds arrive, but the guy that sold me those diamnds said they are 100000 mesh and leave a very polished finish that still has some bite in it. I just hope it and the 1 micron and .5 micron diamond spray cut all of my super steels (and non super steels for that matter) much faster to get that super polished and sharp edges that I love much faster than the Aluminum Oxide in my current 3m lapping films.

Mike
 
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The Rock Lobster is a slicing dream. Flat grind. Nice slicing arc on the edge, very easy to control. Another point I would like to make besides sharpness is.....
The handle! You can have the sharpest knife in the world but without a handle on it, the performance is poor.

The handle on the Rock Lobster gives great control in all sorts of grips. With the 2 or 3 finger choil on it you can get good power behind it too.
 
gunmike1 said:
It is a rough estimation of my .05 micron 3M lapping film. I have been told that .25 grit is about 80000 grit, so .05 micron would be somewhere around 400000 grit. Yes, it is an insanely fine grit, so to me the actual grit doesn't matter much, but I can tell you at .05 microns the finish is EXTREMELY polished. I am going to start using diamond spray soon and it's mere .25 micron final grit. Truthfully on most of my harder steels it will leave a better finish because the diamonds should cut faster and better than my .05 micron Aluminum Oxide lapping film. I guess we'll see when the diamonds arrive, but the guy that sold me those diamnds said they are 100000 mesh and leave a very polished finish that still has some bite in it. I just hope it and the 1 micron and .5 micron diamond spray cut all of my super steels (and non super steels for that matter) much faster to get that super polished and sharp edges that I love much faster than the Aluminum Oxide in my current 3m lapping films.

Mike
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Don't worrie Mike those diamonds will cut anything :D

1 micron= 14,000
0.5 micron= 60,000
0.25 micron=100,000
 
Opinel No.6 in carbon steel, it is already very thin and the grind starts very high giving a very excellent slicing capability.
 
+1 on the Buck Mayo TNT as well as the Wiamea! :thumbup: Two of the sharpest knives out of the box I have ever owned!

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knifenut1013 said:
Don't worrie Mike those diamonds will cut anything :D

1 micron= 14,000
0.5 micron= 60,000
0.25 micron=100,000
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Yeah, my main worry with the diamond spray is whether it will work best on the lapping films like I've been doing or on leather. If I have to use leather then I might end up buying 3 of those scrubbed Bull strops, which isn't cheap. I just need enough decent leather to make 3-3" by 11" strips out of (so I have 1 strop for each grit), although I do already have some varying quality older strops loaded with CrO to use the spray on. I guess I'll have to "settle" for 100000 grit instead of my 400000 grit aluminum oxide, but I think the fast cutting of the diamonds will leave an edge equally as sharp as my edges or sharper once I get used to using it. Now I will be stalking the postman until my order arrives.

Mike
 
Kershaw Shallot with ZDP189 composite blade
Spyderco Millie S30V
SOG Twitch II

Serious cutters.

Not in any particular order.
 
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