Sharpest knife ever...

Sharpest out of box = My Yuna fixed blade.

Sharpest edge that I done myself = My custom hand-forged 52100.
 
Sharpest out of the box was a Kershaw Ripcord. Sadly, it doesn't hold that edge well but right after a stropping it whispers through packaging materials.
 
Sharpest out of the box for me was a zdp ladybug from spyderco. It cut slices of paper so thin I couldn't even see them!
 
Chris reeve knives leave the shop extremely sharp from my experience, but with a fairly obtuse angle. Benchmade gives their knives a decent edge, spyderco even better. The sharpest knife I own (slicing ability) is probably a slip joint I have with a thin 52100 steel blade that I sharpened to 17 degrees and stropped with 3 micro paste.
 
91a2jettavr6 said:
My Rockstead Tei is, by far, the sharpest knife I've experienced.
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+1 on the TEI, also the sharpest I've experienced in my collection. My Sebenza annual is up there as well. Another memorably sharp knife was an 01 scandi bushcraft from Damon Lusky. Surprisingly and somewhat disappointingly, a few handmade knives from different makers were just ok sharp as received from the makers(s).
 
I'd have to say, of all things, a Kershaw Chive. I was at the counter in the store looking at it. Opened it, a finger somehow made contact with the edge--I was *not* testing sharpness--and it shaved some skin clean off my finger. Don't remember if I bled or not, but I don't think I felt the knife bite me at the time. It's been a while.
 
I've had a couple extrema ratios that weren't the sharpest, but had a factory mirror polish just on the edge. It made them cut smooth and feel like quality. I did slice my thumb something awful once with an extrema dark talon, but that was my own fault...

before the microtech, the Darrel Ralph maxx 5.5 was the sharpest...
 
Packohotdogs said:
So I've had several nice mid to high end knives... However, I just got a microtech combat troodon a couple weeks ago. It is, BY FAR the sharpest knife I've ever touched. I just barely touched the blade and cut my thumb like a paper cut. It's unbelievable.

So, what's the sharpest knife you've ever had from the factory?
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I had a Microtech mini-Socom that was THE sharpest out of the box I've ever owned in 30 years. PERIOD. So my experience is the same as yours. Microtech does send bandaids with every knife. Nice of them.
 
Out of the box...toss up between a Dozier custom small hunter and a ...umm...uh...Cold Steel Mini Tuff lite.......
Don't hate me......lol
 
I just got a Cold Steel Espada XL yesterday. Just touching the edge, I got a nice paper cut type cut. It bled for a little while, but pressure stopped it. Never needed to bandage it.
BTW: It's the first knife that has done that. Make what you will of it.
 
The sharpest factory edge is on my BK7 followed very closely by my CS Tanto lite. My sharpest knives now are my Lil Beckers. They are sharp enough for push cuts through cardboard and slice through Meat and bone.
 
Sharpest factory edge was my Spyderco PM2.

Sharpest knife in my collection is my Benchmade 480-1 in M390 that was sharpened by Knifenut1013. I imagine that if I handed him my PM2, that would out slice the 480-1 due to blade geometry.
 
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