Sharpest company's

Spyderco, Kershaw and and Cold Steel.

Edit: hands down sharpest knife out of the box is a coin toss between my Endura ZDP-189 and the 14c28n Blur. Both were scary sharp.
 
Spyderco for sure and I've had very good luck with my Benchmades too, especially my 940-1. My ZDP-189 Endura and Caly 3 were both hair popping sharp right out of the box and I have shaved with a few of my Spydercos in a pinch. I'm surprised that Mora wasn't mentioned yet, almost every one that we've sold at work has come sharp enough to push cut any paper we have tried.
 
Cold steel has been good. Spyderco, had one sharp benchmade and the rest werent. I've never owned a microtech but maybe I will one day. My esse 6 was really really sharp out of box, but my izula had a terrible edge so I had to put a mirror polish on it.
 
I bought 2 avispa's, a zancudo, and a rat 2. All 4 were rediculously sharp for 25$ knives. Bevel was even, and they shaved hair easily.
 
I've had decent experience with Benchmade, and good experience with CRKT's factory edges
 
I have found Spyderco and Kershaw have been the most consistent brands to be sharp when new. Buck is pretty close. I'm limited though. I don't own a lot of every brand out there so this is just from personal experience.
 
I've always gotten very good edges on Spyderco, Kershaw/ZT, and Cold Steel(knives only, not machetes or tomahawks).
 
I too have been less than pleased with the edge on microtech OTFs, my Emerson was probably one of the sharpest knives I've ever had out of the box, but I'm quite the noob.
 
My answer, None!

I expect to reprofile any and every factory edge between 40DI and 30DI, and to a mirror polish. I've never had a knife come as sharp as I can make them.
 
in my experience Buck knives have consistently had the sharpest factory edges. I am talking about the difference between running the knife down your arm and some hairs popping, and running it down your arm and having nothing but a bald spot on your arm because it removed all the hair.
 
I really can't say one company's knives are sharper than another, but these are the sharpest NIB knives I've owned

Spyderco Dragonfly ZDP-189
Spyderco Caly 3 CF/ZDP-189
Hogue EX-01

My LNIB Spyderco Manix 2 CTS-XHP sprint was very sharp as well. Everything else I've owned has been average or less.
 
the shapest i recieved a knife straight from the factory has been my CRK sebenza. IMO
 
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