Sharpest new knife you ever purchased?

Despite a rather steep bevel, my Caly 3 zdp-189 had an extremely fine edge on it. Also, my spyderco mule team 15. My benchmade knives have actually been quite dull out of the box, barely able to cut paper.
 
What I used to consider scary sharp I may not now, but I do think my Emerson CQC 8 was very sharp. More recently a M390 military came very sharp.
 
Some Spydercos and Cold steel. What interests me more is how easy they are to sharpen after extended use. The warden was slicing some stir fry beef a few days ago and lifted a flap on the end of her thumb with an Endura. She likes to use my knives because they are always sharp, but she will likely be much more cautious now. I have learned to wash and wipe knives slowly and gently.
 
One of my chef's knives (forget which) bit me within two minutes of having it out of the box. All I did was touch the edge wrong. It was probably the sharpest knife I've seen out-of-the-box.
 
Bought my girlfriend a Maruyoshi (Hattori) HD 150mm Petty for Christmas and it came just ridiculously sharp. Part of it is the blade thinness and edge geometry I'm sure, but it's probably the sharpest knife I've ever played with so far. It's given my EDC knives deep envy.
 
All of my Kershaws have come sharp out of the box, but the Skyline was so sharp that I didn't even need to touch it up. Spyderco Delica VG-10 was #2.
 
The folding Buck Kalinga with the rosewood scales came very sharp out of the box (no wonder New Graham supplies bandaids with purchases :D)
 
Its a close call between my Case Sodbuster Jr or my Kershaw Leek.
Both shaved me with little pressure.
 
Every Emerson I've bought new was extremely sharp, and these two seemed the sharpest:





Gayle Bradley Spydie's are pretty wicked too:





 
Sharpest folder had to be the Kershaw JYDII Composite.
Sharpest fixed was my custom TR10-S in RWL34 with honourable mentions to my ESEE Laser Strike
 
For me Mcusta Yoroi, Rockstead Higo, Sog Air, Spyderco Caly bluesteel.
For kitchen kyocera black ceramic santoku.
 
Most are pretty sharp new. I would rather talk about the dullest knife as the sharp ones just tend to blend together.
 
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