Effect of oxidation on sharpness

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Very well thought out and presented KG and thank you for publishing the results of your experiments. Our BESS Partners will find this particularly interesting we think. For those of you who may not be familiar, BESS Partners are those companies, usually industrial, that include the BESS logo on their packaging and provide certified BESS numbers on or with their finished edges. BESS numbers are often specified by the end user of the product. Oxidation and metal memory are factors that must be considered by both BESS Partners and their customers in that  edge sharpness may degrade even in just the time consumed by the shipping process. It is a very common circumstance where both supplier and end user own and use edge test instrumentation. This work will help put both on the same page so, once again, thank you KG for your contribution! We're going to ask that Admin put this up as a sticky.
(By the way, the Knife Grinders company is a BESS Partner as well)