What's your EDGE level?

Well, my new murray carter just cut light... so i would put that knife at an 11... My umnumzaan is probably a 7-8 at the moment, but I like to keep it at least 9.
 
A toothy 7.5 for basically all non-operation blades. My set of tests is cleanly shave hair, bisect a paper towel tube and cleanly whittle on "Alberta ironwood".

All manicure blades or smaller slipjoint blades need to be a finer edge for when I operate on myself, but for anything else the edge is gone too fast.
 
Most of mine stay at 10 or beyond, but never drop below 8.

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10 most of the time when I have propper equipment, in the field for long periods of time and I maintain at least level of 7 as a micro bevel.
 
Shotgun said:
I sharpen it to about an 8-9 and then sharpen it again when it falls to a 5-6.
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That's pretty much where I am. Of course I can get them sharper but I use them and I don't like edges that don't last.
 
On a scale of 1 to 10, my folders are approximately really sharp. My fixed blades only ever seem to be fairly sharp. One of them has a really bad sheath so it's almost always dull.
 
My EDCs stay around a 7-8 and I resharpen them at the 5-6 level. I don't need a super sharp knife, since 99.9% of my cutting tasks are tape, vinyl bags, and zip ties.
 
7, I'm not good enough to sharpen beyond that and don't want to scratch/screw my knives up to practice. I need to get some cheaper ones I don't care much about until I get better.
 
Dorito Monk said:
On a scale of 1 to 10, my folders are approximately really sharp. My fixed blades only ever seem to be fairly sharp. One of them has a really bad sheath so it's almost always dull.
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Realistically some of mine are sharper than others also, according to blade grind angle, blade stock thickness, heat treat etc. I have an old Becker Brute that is a broad shouldered beast and a beeotch to sharpen. On the other hand my hollow ground JAB Potbelly is super easy to sharpen and takes an edge like a straight razer. As I said, it really depends on several factors for me. And, some days I have the patience to do a better job than others.
 
The_Guide said:
Well, my new murray carter just cut light... so i would put that knife at an 11... My umnumzaan is probably a 7-8 at the moment, but I like to keep it at least 9.
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I think you are selling yourself short. That murrary carter would deserve a 105.7 at the very minimum.
 
I usually like to start at 9-10. I am not satisfied unless I can shave cleanly with very little pressure, and tree-top the hair on my arm.
 
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