Sharpness out of the box

Everything in my last years purchases came very sharp, most were good on toilet paper. The sharpest seemed to be the Higonokami, but none of the rest were poor. This includes Buck, Boker, Colt, CRKT, Rough Rider and SRM.
Herb
 
Case.

The Case knives that I have recently acquired have all been incredibly sharp. My two GEC knives are not AS sharp...but they will definitely pop hair.

I have a couple Buck slippies as well as a few Schrade as well, and although they are not as sharp as my Case knives, they are still sharp enough to draw blood if I were to get careless with them.
 
Johnny Numbers said:
...not as sharp as my Case knives, they are still sharp enough to draw blood if I were to get careless with them.
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This 5-blade Case Sowbelly made that abundantly clear, just as soon as I tried to extract it from the display tin shown in the pic, on the day it was delivered to me. Three of the blades were opened for 'display' in the tin. The small clip blade had been improperly wedged into the recess made for the SPEY blade, so it didn't want to come out quietly. As soon as it was free of the recess, it snapped shut from about the 1/3 open position, onto the tips of each of my index and middle fingers of my right hand. Neatly clipped a 1/4" flap of skin from each fingertip. No doubt, that factory edge was quite impressive. Nice, STRONG backspring, too. :eek:
 
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This 5-blade Case Sowbelly

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Very nice knife.
 
Some sharpest knives out of box ( traditionals ) have been my Queen Canoe, GEC Court House Whittler (alot recent gecs are nice and sharp) all though not folder: Marttiini, never have I encountered dull Marttini... nor Mora for that matters or Helle.

Case is nice and sharp consistently
My few rare Queens have been sharp consistently
My latter GEC's (2009 and after) have been sharp consistently
ANy Mora, Marttiini, Helle have been scary sharp consistently

but honestly, no factory edge is sharp enough for me these days, even best edge needs slightly strop to satisfy me.
 
Reaper - that is an even better video, thanks. Showing further finishing to remove the burr after the belt sander clears up the concern I had from the videos I have seen.
 
The sharpest factory edge that I've ever received was actually on a Case Hobo Knife -- sort of a surprise to me! That was more than ten years ago and I also had some dull edges from Case back then. All of the more recent production Case knives have had good edges. My Canal Street knives had good factory edges also. I've received some dull and some sharp knives from GEC. My GEC Calf Roper had a good edge.
 
Case, Buck canoe china made that snapped close and made me bleed, and the sharpest knife I ever got new is the large single blade folding hunter by Boker of Solingen, shaved hairs with it right out of the box!
 
Victorinox, by a long shot.

I can still take a Vic blade to the next level though so even they don't go right into use out of the box. With good steel, my sharpmaker, and my stropping system using HA diamond slurry, I can get hair whittling performance and am never satisfied until that is achieved.

Schrade Walden 1095 from yesteryear is my steel of choice. I have a 225h, a single spring 787, some 863 whittlers, a few 881s, and a couple of 804 big whittlers that either had the factory edges or worn edges when I got them. You can pick one of them out of my safe and whittle hairs with them. My technique is decent....but that good, old 1095 makes the difference.

Love that steel.
 
I'll have to jump on the Victorinox bandwagon.

I've had semi dull knives from Case, butter knives from Queen, and sloppy edges from others. I've never had a dull or even semi dull knife from Victorinox, or one that had less than great fit and function of blades and pivots. I've long felt that Victorinox is a bench mark of pocket knives that others should be held to. No nail breakers, no floppy blades, no dull edges, and even the internal parts down in the knives are polished. I guess that's why they are the worlds biggest knife maker.

Carl.
 
I've never received a bad (or even dull) Vic. I don't put them in the same class as my other slippies/traditionals either. Multi-tool category + less personality (IMO)
Love Case edges after a lil TLC.
 
The single sharpest traditional folder I ever received was this Marbles import hunter's trapper. All 3 blades would shave effortlessly.

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Rough Rider are consistently shaving sharp, Case and GEC (since they changed their process in January) are pretty close.
 
Well, the Case Knives were very sharp, ootb. My two Carl Schlieper Knives (Barlow in red jigged bone and Canue in stag); there was the Canue very very sharp, but the Barlow was nearly unsharpable. OK, it should be carbonsteel and it is, but it wasn´t easyto get a good edge on it.

My Buck 110 was very sharp, not razorsharp, but it was good enough. The knife is stainless, but it´s really good to get it very sharp.

Kind regards from Bavaria
Andi
 
Victorinox, yup. But I have never gotten a rough rider that wasn't stupid sharp.
 
Tried a RR peanut, it was sharp O.O.B. but the edge went away quickly.

Just picked up a second hand lightly used Case Soddy Jr and immediately it softly and
handily had me bleeding before I ever felt a cut...nice edge!
 
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