Wich manufacturer makes the sharpest knives ???

Spyderco - in particular the bg-42 milli and the zdp caly jr -- which was a pocket scalpel out of the box.
 
Benchmade and Mcusta for me, but i have only bought 1 factory kershaw and 1 factory Spydie so that might change as time goes on.
 
forcedestrike said:
After 5mins on a waterstone I would say that the Opinel (carbon) is the sharpest blade I have ever handled.
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I'll second that. I've got one I keep around for cutting chores in the kitchen. A little maintenance and there is never a rust problem.

Out of the box I would have to say Spyderco. Every NIB Spyderco I've gotten was extremely sharp. My Police and Military were both just perfect when I got them.
 
MAURICE said:
Out of the box I would have to say Spyderco. Every NIB Spyderco I've gotten was extremely sharp.
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Any Spyderco knives which I bought (40+) came very sharp (with Dodo sharpest), much sharper than any brands I ever owned.
 
Spyder's and Kershaws have been sharp for me but my Cold Steel Scimitars are razors! I too sliced a flap of skin on my arm messing around... and then cut my pinky... then my thumb... lol :)
 
The Spyderco BG-42 Military was the sharpest out of the box knife I've ever handled.

Spyderco is pretty consistent with sharpness as well.
 
For the money those $15-$30 Rapalla fillet knives come pretty sharp. For a pocket knife my Kershaw Nakamura was the sharpest out of the box with the Kershaw Gent's folder not far behind. For a fixed blade out of the box..without a doubt it is the SOG Pentagon for me.
 
netdude65 said:
For a fixed blade out of the box..without a doubt it is the SOG Pentagon for me.
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Speaking of Sog my Fusion throwers were very sharp, odd I know but they would certainly shave my arm. I prefer them dull.

If you dont mind Ill ask a question...

Do you guys feel bad using your new knifes edge? Every time I go to use a new knife something in me wants to preserve the original edge. Ive got diamond stones a buffer with polishing compounds, 2 belt grinders and a nice strop but I have a difficult time getting them as sharp as they were w/o changing the grind a tad... :D
 
Over the years I’ve had a few knives that were so sharp out of the box that when I was first checking them out to make sure that everything was okay with them that I nicked myself even while trying to be careful. Those knives were the:

Spyderco Manix (full sized PE)
Spyderco Native (SV30 PE)
Benchmade Skirmish 630 BK
Bark River Teddy

The Spyderco Native cut me on the drive home from Wal-Mart and I didn’t even know it until I saw the palm of my hand fill with blood from the cut on my thumb.
 
Considering that I stabbed myself in the leg accidently with a Ti-Lite through Dickies and then proceeded to slowly nip away at each finger tip just opening the damn thing, I would have to say Cold Steel as the meat cutter sharp. But the thing could not cut paper straight.

Spyderco gave me a blade that was push cut sharp through all materials I put in front of the blade (Centofante). However, I could not draw blood with that thing no matter what I did. Not that I tried or anything, but I skipped the blade on a box once and it shot across the top of my free hand, and I mean hard enough to grind the tendons, and I did not cut the skin. Weird and lucky.

Depends on the grind and micro-serrations, but those are my superior sharpness votes.
 
forcedestrike said:
After 5mins on a waterstone I would say that the Opinel (carbon) is the sharpest blade I have ever handled.
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I have noticed that even the factory Opinel edge can be really slick. That said, I have found that my CS has a wicked edge as well. :)

That said, I'm noty the type of person that gets overly concerned about edges and stuff. I'm more of the "well it works" type.
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Spyderco in general and the Spyderco Military (Partiallly serrated) in particular.
 
This strikes me as an odd question. It's kind of like asking which paper makes the best drawings.

Out of the box sharpness is at best, an inconsistent, and even misleading, quality. I've found sometimes a blade from a particular factory comes quite sharp one time, and not particularly sharp the next. Worse, I've found some rather highly esteemed knives with very keen edges out of the box, that turn out to also be very fragile edges, requiring a significant resharpening to get rid of the weak edge steel.

Either way, it's not a particularly good indicator of anything. Probably the most consistently sharp knife out of the box I've found has been Olfa and Xacto disposables. Which makes sense really. They're in the business of selling readily sharp and disposable cutting implements that need no maintenance, other than being replaced. If they couldn't deliver such a product, they may as well offer regular knives.
 
shecky said:
This strikes me as an odd question. It's kind of like asking which paper makes the best drawings.
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Right now I use Strathmore pure tints, but for a while I really enjoyed a hard to find Meridian 90# hot press. I came across the pure tints trying to find a paper that matched the texture of old NRA targets that I had run out of. Before that I was Rives BFK or Arches all the way, but I found it too toothy for the type of rendering I do. :D

To answer the topic question: I have lots of nice & expensive knives, but the sharpest out-of-the-box I've ever experienced was a Kershaw Junkyard Dog that had just arrived @ my local knife store. An ugly knife that was just not my thing, but there was no arguing with it's edge.

What is really funny is that I thought I knew what scary sharp was before that. Paper curls, fingernail, refracted light etc... all of that means nothing when you're actually handling a knife that makes hair JUMP away from it with a noise. Since then I expect a lot more from my edges!
 
My experience says William Henry Signature Damascus. A real razor no just razor sharp. Sold it because it was too small and light to be that sharp, that means dangerous for my large fingures. Cut my finger badly the first time I folded it using one hand. Really wonderful knife. A jewel. I wanted it for EDC but felt bad to abuse (sometimes I have to) such a lovely knife. So I sold it to a very nice american guy.
 
Strigamort said:
Spyder's and Kershaws have been sharp for me but my Cold Steel Scimitars are razors! I too sliced a flap of skin on my arm messing around... and then cut my pinky... then my thumb... lol :)
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LOL ,Did the same thing with a Kershaw.
 
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