What is the sharpest knife you own?

Depends on what type sharp. On a production folder, I' d say it' s my now discontinued Beretta (Seki made) Electra wharncliffe liner lock with genuine G-10 computer circuit board inlaid panels. This one is RAZOR sharp. It sails thru paper, string, tape, foam, light plastic sheeting with seemingly no effort! As for custom/ handmades- it' s my Dozier made strait knives. I use most of them. And put them to an Extra Fine grade diamond dust covered bench stone when required. These are TOOTHY sharp. Almost akin to microscopic serrated edges. They will rip thru fibrous materials with ease. And surprisingly requires much less time to maintain a real workig edge than polished ones. At least for what I use my knives for. But YMMV.

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Spyderco Calypso Jr. with ZD-189 steel. It was sharp out of the box. I stropped it a bit and it was catching and cutting my arm hair well above skin level.
 
Judging by the four stiches in my LH middle finger, my Becker Necker. Clumsy don't pay :) It was so new I hadn't cut anything with it yet. I just had to be first :(

I did have fun with it bandaged at work.... "see my boo-boo?" [largely bandaged middle finger raised...]

The best part was giving the intern a ration of crap after sitting around in the ER for four hours. No one had even taken my first aid bandage off to look at the wound and the intern finally started taking my medical history. I said, "do you want me to go out to my truck and get the other half of my finger?" The look on his face was priceless. The low lifes had me in the ER for EIGHT HOURS that night.

Anyway, the Becker was shaving sharp out of the box.
 
Bob Dozier Bird & Trout. Nothing else came close when new. Keeps a keen edge, too.
 
Queen #11 in D2, thinly convexed by Mike Stewart over at Bark River. I shave with that regularly.

#2 would be my '92 Vic Soldier, full convexed. #3 is my Old Timer stock, convex edge.

They each get the same treatment. Light honing with the white Sharpmaker stones if they get a ding, a stroke or two with 2000 grit paper if they drag too much for a strop, and periodic stropping.
 
Benchmade 960 D2. I use a sharpmaker. I'm not that good at sharpening knives but its easy with the sharpmaker, I can at least get it to shave arm hair. That's sharp enough for me
 
I have an old carbon steel opinel # 8 that I can shave my face with. It's just ridiculously sharp.

Another of my sharpest is a Mercator Black Cat. Good flat grind, carbon steel, and thin edge.

I have an old forged german stag handled hunter that will also shave a gnat.
 
I can't believe no one has said it yet.. so
Whichever EDC I just sharpened! :D
I would have to give the sharpness award to either my BM707D2 or Microtech Mini Socom Elite.
The 707 is convexed (by me) and the Socom is at a 17 degree (per side) bevel.
Both send shivers down my spine when I cut things with them.
A veeerrrry close second would have to go to my BM14210, 960SLV, and Lone Wolf T1 (convexed). The only way for me to discern a difference is how thinly I can slice off layers of skin! :D
David
 
My sharpest knife is probably my Alaskan Guide Buck 110 with S30V blade-steel, but my Custom Shoppe Buck 110, with BG-42 blade-steel, is a very close second.
 
Sharpest out-of-the-box: MCusta, Spyderco, and surprisingly (to me at least) a new Buck 110 in 420HC that I bought a couple of months ago. (I haven't tried 110s in other steels yet.)

Sharpest I own: Probably Eye Brand slip-joints. Their extremely thin blades are made of simple carbon steel. Opinels can also get ultra-sharp when you put a really thin edge on them.
 
Toss up between my Benchmade Ritter Griptilian fixed blade, large micarta Sebenza and custom Scott Gossman camp knife.
 
I've got an old 2nd hand Case trapper '1973' that I bought off e-bay that I would put up against anything in a sharpest of the sharp contest. The knife actually came to me this way.
The blades are wore down some but are still about 85% or better. Who ever owned this knife before me liked them sharp and knew how to make them so.
 
Production - Sebenza and Endura 4

Custom - Bob Dozier skinner, without a doubt THE sharpest blade I have ever handled!
 
I have strider WP,benchmade resistor fixed,MT socom,MT vector,Kiku,and Spyderco Captain. I think Strider and MT vector is the sharpest out of these 6 knives I own.
 
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