03-01-2018, 05:13 PM
Ken, when you live in the wilderness during long time with no electricity and only your knife and axe to help you - you starts to very innovative. This becouse you must solve problems with the tools you have together with your brain.
I lived 6 month at the tine every year during 20 years with the Sami people in the high mountains above the arctic circle and live in a kåta (Hogan) made of birch wood, water prof by birch bark and windproof by bogturf outside the birch bark. Most of the time we have a open fire on the floor and later a kitchen stove of iron. That was my home and their I rice my family and my three sons. And - there I learned how to use knifes, how to sharpen them - and what happens to their edges during 6 month off daily free hand sharpening.
Allready then, durning the sixties, i started to think about how I shall construct a simple but good sharpening tool that could Sharpen and maintain both flat and convex edges and with free sharpening angle. I made one for my self, then i made one to a friend, one of his friend see it and whanted one - and I am still on that road...today I get orders from all over the world
and I sill do not market my tools, I have only my homepage and I am happy with that.
I baptized my first tool to "Edge" and from that come the name EdgePal.
EOU,
I hope that you, with todays tecnuiqe, can tecnical prove dor todays people what your forefathers have know and understod for thousends of years = an edge shall only be as sharp it need to be dor its purpouse.
IF all knifes back in time was razor sharp it was no needs for razors, ans razors are thousends of years old and common to find kn graves allready from the beonze age - so - razors was needed - and knifes was not razor sharp.
If you can scientificly profe that knifes shall only he as sharp they need to be for their purpouse - I wish you luck to explain it for todays city people that is 90 % of the population. I have a little experiance about that what ever I say kn this matter - most people do bot belive it or understand it.
Thomas
I lived 6 month at the tine every year during 20 years with the Sami people in the high mountains above the arctic circle and live in a kåta (Hogan) made of birch wood, water prof by birch bark and windproof by bogturf outside the birch bark. Most of the time we have a open fire on the floor and later a kitchen stove of iron. That was my home and their I rice my family and my three sons. And - there I learned how to use knifes, how to sharpen them - and what happens to their edges during 6 month off daily free hand sharpening.
Allready then, durning the sixties, i started to think about how I shall construct a simple but good sharpening tool that could Sharpen and maintain both flat and convex edges and with free sharpening angle. I made one for my self, then i made one to a friend, one of his friend see it and whanted one - and I am still on that road...today I get orders from all over the world
and I sill do not market my tools, I have only my homepage and I am happy with that.I baptized my first tool to "Edge" and from that come the name EdgePal.
EOU,
I hope that you, with todays tecnuiqe, can tecnical prove dor todays people what your forefathers have know and understod for thousends of years
= an edge shall only be as sharp it need to be dor its purpouse.IF all knifes back in time was razor sharp it was no needs for razors, ans razors are thousends of years old and common to find kn graves allready from the beonze age - so - razors was needed - and knifes was not razor sharp.
If you can scientificly profe that knifes shall only he as sharp they need to be for their purpouse - I wish you luck to explain it for todays city people that is 90 % of the population. I have a little experiance about that
what ever I say kn this matter - most people do bot belive it or understand it.Thomas