What's the Sharpest and Dullest knives you've received out of the box

Canada has had quite a few politicians you would describe as the dullest knives in the drawer, but I don't recall any knives I've bought as seriously dull. The last few I've acquired, a Buck Pro 791 in CM-154, Buck Custom Shop 110 in Magnacut and an Emerson CQC-7B were all hair shaving sharp.
 
Hard to say what the sharpest “out of the box knife” was. Had a delica that was incredibly sharp. A ruike knife (surprisingly) was absolutely stupid sharp. Nothing that just was absolutely amazing that stands out because I usually sharpen up when I get a new knife. I just remember those two didn’t need much.

Dullest by far without a doubt was an A. Wright and sons stag Lambfoot. This was a new one and it was terrible. Literally blunt. Took me forever to get an edge on it.

Another was a benchmade (seems to be mentioned often here) canyon. It was pretty terrible but nothing like the Lamb. I sold every benchmade I owned shortly after getting that one but none of the rest were awful.
 
Alberta Ed said:
Canada has had quite a few politicians you would describe as the dullest knives in the drawer, but I don't recall any knives I've bought as seriously dull. The last few I've acquired, a Buck Pro 791 in CM-154, Buck Custom Shop 110 in Magnacut and an Emerson CQC-7B were all hair shaving sharp.
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As a fellow Canadian I have to ask, where did you grab the Emerson from?
 
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A few more honorable mentions for sharpest out of the box

Reiff knives. I’ve had 5 Reiff knives so far - all came with a sticky sharp edge

Peltonen Ranger Puuko’s. I’ve had about 4 of these.. the gen 2 models arrived scalpel sharp and have stayed that with minimal stropping.
 
All my Benchmade are quite sharp, also FK U1, SAK, Buck 110 etc are very sharp. the dullest one is a little TOPS boot knife which bought many years ago.
 
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