What is the sharpest knife you own?

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Brad Greulich

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Sorry, if this has been done a hundred times...
but, I was just touching up some of my hunters, and was wondering, what is the sharpest knife in your collection, and what do you use to give it such an edge?

Mine is my buck 110, and I use a lansky clamp system as well as the lansky crock stick sharpner.
 
A Mcusta MC-37D Yoroi folder. Not true damascus, I don't think, but, more of a laminated blade with a center core of VG-10 and 33 layers of softer steel on either side. Is that damascus? Dunno. The definition seems to vary.

Anyway, it is really scary sharp. Scalpel sharp.

Those Japanese make knives like they've been doing it for a few years :)
 
My BG-42 Military is the sharpest knife I own. Got it in ridiculously sharp condition, wore it down and gave it a few strokes on the brown stones and its right back to deadly skin ripping utility edge.
 
Victorinox Nylon Solo. I thinned out the edge and gave it a slight convex using fine diamond stones and strops for the final steps. My Opinel #8 comes pretty close.
 
Dog Man said:
Those Japanese make knives like they've been doing it for a few years :)
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At least a few :p

My Spyderco s30v Native.

It only sees light use, it's a budget SD knife so a little bit of use keeps me grabbin' for it, but it so far hasn't even needed a touch up.
 
I have several that I maintain scary sharp: a pair of CS Voyagers, Buck/Strider 880S in ATS-34, BM Mini-Rukus, Marble's Campcraft and a Fieldcraft in 52100, CS Master Hunter, CS SRK with convex edge, Helle Eggen, Buck 110 in 420HC, SAK, Bark River Woodland in A2, a trio of Frost's laminated bladez, an Old Timer stockman, a set of Solingen wood chisels... but I'd give the overall best edge to my American Standard Tanto by Ivan Campos in D3 steel. It's chisel ground, maybe a 30 degree angle, and comes closer to that mythical perfect edge than any other in my collection.
 
My sharpest knife currently is my Spyderco Manix. But my Delica wave is pretty close.

Those lansky crock stick sharpner really do a great job.
 
Probably my sharpest knife is my RJ Martin Devastator, followed by my Buck/Mayo 172. RJ has mercy on me and touches them up for me when I need them sharpened.
 
At one time I would have said my Spyderco Kbit and then I got an Emerson persian and man can you can put a scary edge on the thing! I'm talking like a straight razor where you run it down your arm and feel nothing but the hair is all clumped together on one end where the blade stops.
 
At the moment it's probably my Junglee Marshall. I just rebeveled the edge of its AUS10 blade to ~15° using a couple of Arkansas stones this weekend. Now to see how long it stays sharp next to my VG10 Native III. The Native is at about the same angle as I slightly rebeveled it as well. No testing to compare to Cliff's. Just see how it fares in daily use.

It's why I bought the Junglee in the first place. I wanted to try AUS10.
 
Benchmade 710 D2. Maintained with a Sharpmaker. A "toothy" edge, but it will push straight down through a tomato, or push cut newsprint an inch out from the hold.

Just for giggles, I shaved with it. not something I would want to do every day, but it worked, and Ididn't get any cuts.:p
 
It would be a close call as they are all very sharp, but at the top of the list would be an M2 Ritter and a Delica 3 (vg-10, seki city). The runners up (if you could really call them that) would be an 814HS, 710HSSR, and Al Mar Shrike (vg-10)
 
I have ZERO talent for sharpening knives. My loving wife of 31 years knew that when she bought me the Chef's Choice Edge Select 120 she saw in my Blade Magazine.
Now EVERY blade I own is my sharpest!!
Out of the box was Microtech Trodoon Double Edge Serrated blade, custom made..... Todd Orr's Skyblade Competition Blade. Cuts air. Must handle with EXTREME caution!

Peace.
 
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