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

My Kailash Scourge was hair popping sharp out of the box.
Anyway to get back on the thread:
Dullest: my Benchmade Bugout, I had one of the proverbial Benchmade lemon I guess
Sharpest - Tie up between Emerson Super Roadhouse and Cold Steel Code 4 Tanto
 
Sharpest would be a tie between Spyderco 440c Cat and Bark River Featherweight Fox River.

Dullest? Hmmm probably the boker kalashnikov donut edition.
 
Sharpest: Rockstead SHU or the Mnandi
Dullest: a generic multi-tool plastic and metal knife marked “Camping,” I think it only had a primary bevel but wasn’t sharpened past that nor was it zero ground
 
19-3ben said:
Dullest= pretty much any of my machete, since they tend to come without a finished edge.

Sharpest would have to be one of my Good Kife Co and @David Mary knives.
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Mea culpa. I forgot to mention one of Dave's knives.

This little chunk of 3/16ths 8670 will gladly touch-up your goatee or moustache, remove a digit or two, or pry open a gun safe door...with ZERO effort...



 
Sharpest - Spyderco & BUCK

Dullest - every Case Knife. They always arrive with a burr & are easily sharpened within 5 minutes.
 
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Sharpest - Spyderco V-Toku2 Stretch

Dullest - Case large sodbuster

That Case did sharpen easily. That CV steel is great. Easy to sharpen and holds the edge quite a while. Loves to patina too.
 
Sharpest - Microtech LUDT but have to give honorable mention to every Spyderco I've ever owned, Bradford Guardian 3 and Arno Bernard Squirrel were all hair shaving sharp out of the box.

Dullest - Hindered XM-18 Skinny Slicer, close 2nd my latest S20V Bugout which came from the BM custom shop, it's hair popping sharp now though. ;)
 
Hashishiin said:
Yup - got two Tramontina with no, uhh.. there's no edge on the tip, and a few inches down from the tip. It's cool, because I have a project, but I do not have a machete with a full edge. Are a lot of machetes like that, or were you talking about Tramontina too?

Cold Steel edges are crazy sharp. Spyderco, too.
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That's by design. Being that machetes are likely to contact the ground while in use, the edge near the tip is purposely kept blunt.
 
Dullest: Condor Hudson Bay. I still love the hell out of that knife though and it is always in my Jeep at the ready.

Sharpest: I really don't know. I've had a lot of knives come very sharp for production. I'll switch it up a bit and say which production company I believe to have the most skilled sharpeners producing the sharpest, most consistent edges. #1 for me is old school Kershaw (2005-2015 era, I don't know about their current stuff). #2 Spyderco, I've always had a good experience with their edges. And... I guess that's really about the only two production companies that have consistently impressed me throughout the years. I have a feeling that they get a solid team of sharpeners and they stick around longer term than most companies for whatever reason. With every other company I've had a mix of impressive edges, pretty good edges, and wonky edges.
 
Alone said:
I will own one of those at some point...maybe two.
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It's a cool knife man. I've had it for atleast 8 years or so and have split quite a bit of wood with it, cut many many blackberry vines, and other pretty hard use stuff. The coating has held up very well for a knife that's been batoned a lot. I'd recommend it. This is reminding me I need to go get it out of the jeep and give it some renaissance wax.
 
LimpCroissant said:
It's a cool knife man. I've had it for atleast 8 years or so and have split quite a bit of wood with it, cut many many blackberry vines, and other pretty hard use stuff. The coating has held up very well for a knife that's been batoned a lot. I'd recommend it. This is reminding me I need to go get it out of the jeep and give it some renaissance wax.
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Yup...that and a "Low Drag" are going on the grocery list.
 
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