Which knife that you own came with the sharpest blade?

Microtech Socom Manual Action! without question razor
sharp right out of the box.
 
1. Mora Viking from Frost's of Sweden
2. Spyderco Calypso Jr Ltwt
3. " Lum Chinese folder
4. " Lil´Temperance
5. " Salsa
6. Fällkniven P1 (Standard version, the limited ed. wasn´t as sharp))
7. Gränsforsbruks small forrest ax (shaving sharp!!)
8. MicroTech Socom M/A
9. " Mini Socom Tanto M/A
 
Hartsfield knives always come very, very, very sharp. I have to remember that when I clean them, or I nick myself by polishing anywhere near the edge. :)
 
My Busse Steel Heart E.

No just kidding ;) .

My sharpest out of box are Microtech L-UDT (It also has a wicked point) and William Henry T12-P (Spearpoint Pearl)
 
Scary sharp, always.

The dullest, Randall's without a doubt...go figure!

Mel
 
When I got my Sebenza back from Mr.Mayo, it was like a freakin lazer it was so sharp it would cut stuff before it actually touched the surface of the object. :eek:
 
the sharpest knife i experienced was a spyderco wegner i bought for my dad about 5yrs ago-sliced a cold cut piece of skin off my thumb when i opened it and my thumb slipped:eek:
 
Another vote for Microtech knives as sharpest production blades out-of-the-box.

But can your "sharp" knife do this? click here
See comments by Sal Glesser of Spyderco.
 
Which knife that you own came with the sharpest blade?
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1st place: An RJ Martin folder in S30V.

2nd place: the convex edge Busse got onto my Active Duty.

3rd place: The edge Chris Reeve & Scott Cook get onto their knives is very nice, very refined. Mildly convex final bevel, polished, super sharp.

Sad thing is, I don't have the equipment or control to restore to quite this level of sharpness. I can sorta get the Reeve/Cook thing back onto my knives with a hard paper board on a bench grinder, but not reliably.

Sharpest edge I've ever gotten on a blade was the one I got onto my first wood plane (Lie Nielson block plane, A2 blade, cryo'd) on my first try on Norton synthetic Japanese water stones, but I used a jig. Super polished, and the most hair jumpin-est edge I've ever gotten... as sharp or sharper than RJ's folder, but alas, the jig I used was for a simple flat plane blade. Not sure I can reproduce on my knives with water stones.... yet. 8000 grit water stones can surely refine a mirror polished edge to a serious degree... very impressive.

I eventually will get a hard felt wheel for bench grinder, since that's how Scott Cook & Chris Reeve get their final polished convexivity.
 
The sharpest knives I've ever seen, touched, handled, used are my three Randalls...I have 4 Doziers which are not far behind. And for true custom I have a JP Holmes 420V fillet knife that will cut you if you look at it sideways.
 
Outcast D2 came from the box with the sharpest of any blade I have ever seen. Say what you will about Kershaw, this knife impressed me, under $ 60.00. If you can look beyond the “Made in China on the blade”. Only other production knife that came as sharp, I think was Cold Steel, Trail Master Bowie. I have had mine for almost Fifteen years, chop wood, Para cord, 5/16" climbing rope, salmon, I even used it once on an elk (not to bring it down) oh yea, it made a great spear head, and I also hammer a few small nails once with the top of the blade. I paid a $100.00 for that knife, still got it, still goes.
 
For me the sharpest knives I've ever recieved NIB in the mail were in this order and all very close in sharpness

1) Fallkniven U2 in the SGP Steel
2) Sypderco Para-Military in S30V steel
3) Ka-Bar Dozier Thorn in D2 steel
4) Bill Vining Custom made Ouparator folder in 440C

However, the best edge keeper of all of these is the Ka-Bar Dozier designed Thorn in D2 with the Spyderco S30V PM right behind that one. The 440C blade at 58Rc on the Vining knife was spectacular when I got it but it didn't last very long compared to the other three above. In defense of this one though it is a very thin hollow grind on the blade compared to the thicker ones above.

For the size of the knife the U2 is most impressive at edge keeping but it is harder to sharpen for some reason than any of the above. The Vining knife is a piece of cake to get an edge back. I like all of the above a lot and carry them often except for the Para Mil which I recently sold. It was a sharp one though for a thick blade like that.
 
yea, one more...Cold Steel, Magnum Tanto, San Mai III, 12" blade. Bought an old one, used - good steel.
 
My Spyderco Endura and Benchmade Apparition have been the sharpest. I still can't sharpen worth a crap, but I was able to put a good edge on my Bushman and Kukri machete.
 
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