[sonofodin]

Ok, so here it is plain and simple. This thread is for you to share your experiences with the most wicked edge you have ever felt. Maker and steel are all we need to know. Pics are a bonus. I'll start first. The most wicked edge I have ever felt would have to be, hands down, my Mora. When they say it has a core like a razor, they really mean it! Second place comes my Benchmade Monochrome with N690. Third, my SOG field pup, with AUS 8.

[Omaha-BeenGlockin]

Cabela's Buck 110 S30V

[hso]

Watched a buddy of mine cut his fingerprint off with a Blackjack 1-7 while he was wiping it down. It was so sharp that he only felt a tug and there was his fingerprint lying on the blade. You could see the tiny blood vessels through the thin layer of skin left on his finger, but it didn't bleed. :evil:

[CWL]

Helle Eggen, sharpest blade out of the box I have ever had.

A particular Mora #1 comes a close second.

I thought I had sharp knives until I started buying Scandinavian knives, handmades haven't even come close.

[sonofodin]

What kind of steel was it, HSO?

[Dallee]

No.1 Bark River Highlander-A2
No.2 W.Henry S09-VG10
No.3 Ka-Bar Warthog-1095

[Valkman]

My own carbon steel (O-1) knives. They get so sharp I'm afraid to send them out, and everyone cuts themselves. Like hso said I have wiped one down and it'll slice so thin and so fast it is really unbelieveable. I've learned to be very, very careful when handling them. :)

[cracked butt]

Sharpest object I've ever handled was a saphire microtome blade used for slicing specimens for electron microscopy. I did not feel the edge, we were warned that the edge was so sharp that it would slice through flesh without any resistance.

[JShirley]

Handled an obsidian scalpel second. My buddy warned me it was extremely sharp. I felt that cold, sick feeling you get when you cut yourself, but the cut (on the pad of my finger) was so fine I could never find it! :what:

[Devonai]

#1: Emerson Benchmade 3.9" Tanto folder.

#2: The piece of glass I stepped on at the beach last week. It bled like crazy but I never felt any pain.

[hso]

1095 on that one. Dif heat treat, cryoed, convex edge. Spooky sharp. Sharpenable on a mouse pad with almost any grit.

[rbmcmjr]

Bailey Bradshaw in W-1

Tom Krein in D2

Hiroaki Ohta in ATS-34

[coelacanth]

Carbon steel - probably 1095 or something very similar. An older blade, thinned from long hard use over the years and hard as flint - probably Rc 60 + . I had just reground the edge the day before so she was in fine form. Anyway, there's me standing by the kitchen sink dicing vegetation when the phone rings - I put the knife on the edge of the cutting board and as I'm reaching for the phone I bump the edge of the cutting board. Yup - knife slips off the edge of the board and as I am off balance reaching for the phone I can't move my foot. Knife falls edge down from countertop height and contacts my booted foot. I barely felt the impact and as the knife fell straight down there was no slicing motion but it layed the top of the boot open ( Redwings, dammit) cutting all the way through the leather and the cloth liner and just barely the top layer of my sock. No blood but I think a change of shorts may have been in order. Still the best kitchen knife I own.

[Jason_G]

1095 on that one. Dif heat treat, cryoed, convex edge.
This is the way I make my knives.

Jason

[sonofodin]

Uh...ok ima say it...maybe we should be more careful :neener:. Once took a fillet knife over my pinkie and fourth finger. It fell out of the sheath when I turned it upside down and all it had to do was fall over my fingers and keep on truckin. Couldent play guitar for weeks. :barf:. I've got worse injuries from early learning with knives. One included almost loosing my sight and getting it in the knee from that Ti-Lite...Ehem. Ok. I fessed up. :p

[22-rimfire]

The sharpest factory edge that I have seen was on my SOG Blink (an assisted folder). That little thing would definitely cut you if you weren't paying attention and the cuts were very very fine, much like you would get from a razor blade.

[Skofnung]

I've got an older laminated Mora that I never let anyone touch. It usually lives on my workbench and does skiving duty when I'm working with leather, but I do take it out and about on occasion. I've never cut myself with it, but it is sharp enough that if someone were to "thumb" the edge, they would lose precious bodily fluids.

My father had an old carbon steel kitchen knife that he kept in the camp cookbox. While cutting onions on a trip, I got distracted and sliced my left index finger 3 times before I knew I was cut.