Steel that gets the sharpest... ?

I hope richard j weighs in on this one...

It's not just steel type though. It's also the stock thickness. It's a lot tougher to get a big thick chunk of steel to really insane sharpness than it is to get a thinner one. There's also edge geometry. Have you tried Jerry Fisk's method, for instance? Gives it a nice toothy edge that's nevertheless insanely sharp. There's a lot that goes into it.
 
by the definition of most of the people that i know personally, my knives are scary sharp, but i'm a perfectionist.

Every knife that i have will shave, and all my edc knives are "hair popping" sharp, but i know that it's possible to be sharper, so i wannit

I don't like toothy edges. I want as refined and polished an edge as it's possible to get.
 
I don't see any difference in sharpness in any of my steels. Some are easier to sharpen, to be sure, but they all end up at the same place.
 
I find that I am able to get 3V sharper than any other steel I work with. I would probably rate M4 next and then S90V. I try to make sure all my knives are hair whittling sharp before they ship.
 
Agreed, all steels can get equally sharp.


That said, I find 52100 and 50100B get scary sharp very easily.



Big Mike
 
Usually, steels with high carbon content can get pretty sharp. Tool steels like D2/M4 are pretty good.
 
Big Chris said:
I find that I am able to get 3V sharper than any other steel I work with. I would probably rate M4 next and then S90V. I try to make sure all my knives are hair whittling sharp before they ship.
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Yeah, now that I think of it, my first 3V knife, a Spyderco Tuff, seems to get right up there in sharpness.
 
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