I agree with EMF. While I have no experience with SY knives, I remember that my RMD came nicely sharpened. It was a while ago, so I don't totally remember, but it quickly reached really scary sharp.

As for hard use knives, its hard to know exactly how sharp hard use knives should be, but my RTAK is very sharp and I've never had issues at all with rolling or denting... except when I struck a rock with the trip, but even those dents are sharpening out


I've used my RMD really hard, and the thin, sharp edge has held up without flinching