03-10-2017, 09:07 PM
I completely agree. I put off buying my PT50B for something like a year, but it continued to bother me that I didn’t really have any grasp on, or any way to measure how sharp blades actually were. So, I was doing the typical slicing paper and other similar methods to at least get some sort of idea on what was going on.
Like everybody else, I experimented with and spent a lot of time trying all sorts of different sharpening/honing methods, but I became more and more frustrated not know how well the stuff I was doing was actually working. Hone more, hone less? This grit, that grit and on and on.
The very first PT50B test instantly woke me up to what I had been missing. Finally I could tell not only how sharp the result was, but just as, if not more importantly, also understand what methods were effective and which were not. No more wondering, no more guessing, no more wasting time experimenting without really understanding the results.
Now I understand that the reason I didn’t get a sharpness tester a long time ago was simply because I didn’t understand the true ramifications of the thing and that it was what I had been missing and longing for all along.
Now the PT50B and a USB microscope are just part of how I sharpen and I’d feel lost without those tools.
Like everybody else, I experimented with and spent a lot of time trying all sorts of different sharpening/honing methods, but I became more and more frustrated not know how well the stuff I was doing was actually working. Hone more, hone less? This grit, that grit and on and on.
The very first PT50B test instantly woke me up to what I had been missing. Finally I could tell not only how sharp the result was, but just as, if not more importantly, also understand what methods were effective and which were not. No more wondering, no more guessing, no more wasting time experimenting without really understanding the results.
Now I understand that the reason I didn’t get a sharpness tester a long time ago was simply because I didn’t understand the true ramifications of the thing and that it was what I had been missing and longing for all along.
Now the PT50B and a USB microscope are just part of how I sharpen and I’d feel lost without those tools.