10-24-2017, 10:31 AM
Thank you very much to KnifeGrinders for this contribution! We think that the correlation of traditional and anecdotal means of testing edge sharpness to BESS scores will be beneficial to many readers. Your approach to this subject is very interesting and meaningful. We are thankful for the amount of time you dedicated to your experiments and thankful for your having shared the results of those efforts on the BESS Exchange.
A thank you as well to Australian Knife Magazine for participating in and publishing your work. Perhaps, just over a year ago, EOU offered to write a similar examination of sharpness testing techniques for a US Knife Magazine. The reply we got from that particular magazine editor was that "their readership wouldn't be interested in that sort of information". We weren't taken aback so much by the rejection of our proposal as much as the affront to his readership. Fortunately, that editor's opinion of his audience is a minority one. Their primary competitor in the knife publishing world saw it differently and the article ran some months later.
Sharpeners and industrial users all over the world have learned what it means to have the ability to quickly and inexpensively measure and quantify edge sharpness. It tells us, after each step of the sharpening process, what works and what we are wasting our time and money with. After we learn, we can communicate what we have learned to others in a concise and meaningful way. Our gratitude is without boundary to KnifeGrinders and the Australian Knife Magazine. Without the support of like organizations, our customers and our BESS Exchange membership we would not exist.
Three cheers to Australian Knife Magazine and six to KnifeGrinders!
A thank you as well to Australian Knife Magazine for participating in and publishing your work. Perhaps, just over a year ago, EOU offered to write a similar examination of sharpness testing techniques for a US Knife Magazine. The reply we got from that particular magazine editor was that "their readership wouldn't be interested in that sort of information". We weren't taken aback so much by the rejection of our proposal as much as the affront to his readership. Fortunately, that editor's opinion of his audience is a minority one. Their primary competitor in the knife publishing world saw it differently and the article ran some months later.
Sharpeners and industrial users all over the world have learned what it means to have the ability to quickly and inexpensively measure and quantify edge sharpness. It tells us, after each step of the sharpening process, what works and what we are wasting our time and money with. After we learn, we can communicate what we have learned to others in a concise and meaningful way. Our gratitude is without boundary to KnifeGrinders and the Australian Knife Magazine. Without the support of like organizations, our customers and our BESS Exchange membership we would not exist.
Three cheers to Australian Knife Magazine and six to KnifeGrinders!