Sharpest knife you’ve ever seen?

My SHIVA KI CAMP KNIFE and MERC are crazy sharp!! I have a big collection but these 2 are the most impressive when you touch the sharpen edge The TIP Shiva built on my camp/chopper is just wild -reinforced!
 
Wowbagger said:
I'm not quite seeing what is happening there .
After reading your description but before I looked at your photos I was thinking of another test . I never use it and may have maybe tried it once. I'm thinking it might have been Murry Carter who does it .
Any way he takes the edge to a flat sheet of printer / typing paper while the sheet is flat on the table and splits off a layer of paper without cutting through to the other side .
I searched YouTube to no avail , sorry.
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I've never seen that, but yes....kinda like that.
I hold the sheet horizontal with my hand. Mostly because of the very acute angle of my edges, it will fillet the sheet. I went all the way through. I didn't think of trying layers. Thanks, I'll try that next time!
 
I have a ZT 0393 cpm 20cv, I got it used but I think all they did was reprofile and sharpen it, it has a mirror edge that is scary sharp. It looks so nice I haven't carried it yet.
 
Out of the box? Biryukov #12 (S125V) and RH Knives Tasca 2.
 
The sharpest new knife was a William Henry B15 with a ZDP-189 blade. It's retired now. Also, a friend brought his Zero Tolerance 0456 (CTS 204P) for me to resharpen, and it took such a great edge I did the same to mine, which had never been used. I have a Paul Chen Katana that's 29 inches of razor blade, the only thing that makes me nervous in the whole house.
 
All my Helle knives came hair whittling sharp out of the box (or in Helle’s case, the tube). But the Bradford 3.5.. it came with a 12-13 deg angle pr side, even grinded, FFG blade.. it was almost to much of a good thing
 
Not really sure, but the sharpest knife I've ever received from the factory was a zeroed Mora 106... don't even know how that edge holds up to soft woods.
 
Mine would be a 1996 - 1998 ish Microtech Socom Elite. I sharpened it freehand probably at about 12 degrees (per side) edge on it. I freehanded it. It took a few days 2 or 3. I've never encountered anything sharper. Only edge that concerned me. I know scalpels aren't really sharp they are polished, but the socom was magnitudes sharper with light microscopic teeth for bite and slice.
 
Any hollow ground Buck, in a traditional, fine-grained, non-Vanadium Carbide, steel - and sharpened the way my grandpa taught me - is the sharpest knife I’ve ever encountered.

I just pulled my EDC 112 in 440C out of my pocket, and shaved October 6, and the 1 in 13 off my desk calendar. The ghost image of those numerals is showing through the tissue-thin paper from the next month underneath.

Buck’s heat treating, their hollow grind geometry, and traditional fine-grained steels is always a winning combination!

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Mora Original Classic No. 1. With laminated blade. At $43.00 this was expensive for a Mora. The hoarder in me said “get another” when I heard it was discontinued.
Busse custom shop Crab Drop sliced through the side of a heavy leather sheath, not uncommon, I guess. Busse replaced it without a second thought.
CPK.
 
A retailer in Amarillo did a Wharncliffe mod with acid-washed blade on a DF 2 K390 that I bought, a final sharpening done there. I did the skin test with new scars as evidence.
 
The sharpest knives out there are likely knapped from natural glass/flint. There are also plenty of sharp razors out there, but neither they nor napped knives are practical for most users. On the continuum of sharp there is a Goldilocks range where a useful edge can be maintained for optimum period and then restored reasonably easily. I think that is what you are asking about here.

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3 I can think of startled and unzipped me, right out of the box...

Cold Steel Recon 1 XL in CTS-XHP
BLACKHAWK Elishewitz Nightedge
And, believe it or not, a plain ol' Schrade Old Timer Sharpfinger... $14.95, and still in the fixed blade rotation.
 
G8R8U2 said:
3 I can think of startled and unzipped me, right out of the box...

Cold Steel Recon 1 XL in CTS-XHP
BLACKHAWK Elishewitz Nightedge
And, believe it or not, a plain ol' Schrade Old Timer Sharpfinger... $14.95, and still in the fixed blade rotation.
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So the sharp finger got your finger? The universe has a great sense of humor!
 
donnord said:
I gotta remember this I go there a few times a year.
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Talk to Troney or his son if one of them is there. They both know their stuff. The son can do just about any knife mod you’d ever want, and they can (correctly) sharpen any knife to hair whittling.

I could spend all day in there.
 
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