What is your definition of SCARY SHARP?

99ls1guy said:
to throw another question into this thread. What is the sharpest production knife you guys have received (straight out of the box, no touch ups)?
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For me, it's a toss-up between Spyderco and Al Mar. My Mini-SERE and Nomad came as sharp as any Spyderco I've ever gotten... and my Spydercos came sharper than anything else I've ever bought.

And Cutlerylover... the Apex is definitely worth the wait. I use mine along with my Sharpmaker. The Edge Pro gets the heavy jobs and the Sharpmaker does the touch ups, although the Edge Pro is perfectly capable of handling the touch up part. It's just quicker to set up the Sharpmaker when I don't need much except cleaning and a quick edge correction.
 
Thanks Dale for the encouraging words...I too have the sharpmaker, and it works great I love it! I just want the edgepro for a slightly more accurate sharpening job...you know...just another step up...I figure its a great buy in any case, I know it would get tons of use! I was goign to buy another nice knife, but I figure I have enough knives, lol, its time to buy another system to keep them all sharp!
 
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when you do a shave test and you feel it bite your skin and see a little blood from the small cuts in your arm, oops. I would say its sharp at that point
 
Received my PE delica today. While I am VERY happy with the knife it doesn't cut the things I have laying around my room as easy as my Byrd knife. I know both are technically spyderco knives, but I figured the "real" one would have been sharper. Either way its an awesome knife so far (1 hour lol)...just figured I would throw that out here since I asked about it earlier in this thread.
 
Years ago when I worked at a hospital, a surgical instrument sharpener offered to sharpen my old 'Sharp TM' pocket knife (420 steel??). When I got it back I tried the 'ol shave the arm hair test. I was shocked! The hair just flew off into the air without the blade even touching my skin. I didn't even feel it. THAT scared the hell out of me! I didn't know a knife could get that sharp.

Twenty five years later, I still have that old knife, still in perfect condition, still able to shave arm hair, but not even close to what it was on that fateful day.

Oh what fond memories!
 
I am a pretty hairy guy to begin with, but my left hand and lower forearm are always shaved. Someone asked me why this is so. I told them that it is so because I test my sharpened knives on it. They didn't believe me. I took a sharpened Mora, put some water on their arm, and proceeded to shave a 6" swatch off their arm. They were shocked. I told them that my left arm is my proving ground. They believed me afterwards. That is my definition of scary sharp.

Another story, a friend came over to the house, and he wanted to see my knife collection (a paltry 30-40 knives, most of them scary sharp). I told him to be careful, since I sharpen all of my knives to be very sharp. He didn't believe me. He proceeded to cut his fingers when he "tested" one of my blades by drawing the blade across his fingers. The blade managed to cut into four of his fingers and draw blood. Since it was a cheap knife, I gave it to him to remember me by.
 
dethompson said:
Years ago when I worked at a hospital, a surgical instrument sharpener offered to sharpen my old 'Sharp TM' pocket knife (420 steel??). When I got it back I tried the 'ol shave the arm hair test. I was shocked! The hair just flew off into the air without the blade even touching my skin. I didn't even feel it. THAT scared the hell out of me! I didn't know a knife could get that sharp.
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How did he do it?
 
I don't know what kind of equipment he used. He would periodically come by and pick up surgical knives for sharpening. I'd love to know what he used too. I've seen sharp. I've seen REALLY sharp, but to this day I've never seen anything quite like that. I was honestly scared of that knife for a while.
 
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