Edge Retention/Rolling Test Stand

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Yes Rupert and 14 pages as well. We think that it is time to begin another thread that places much of what has gone before into a sort of "Cliff Notes" condensed version and then go forward from that point in the new thread. This seems like it might be good timing for just such a move since we have now begun shipping SET Units to outside testers. Here's what the primary parts look like and to the right, an assembled SET unit that is headed, Monday, to KG in Australia. 

                                                      

Much appreciated, can't wait for it at Knife Grinders.
I've been thinking of the SET testing plan these weeks,  and have several testing lines/directions in mind; high time to draft them in detail before the device arrives.

So proud Australians are among the first to reveal the unseen about the edge rolling.

We've needed something like SET to increase awareness of BESS and EOU in our hemisphere.
Though a BESS edge sharpness tester is an ultimate instrument to determine sharpness, sharpness (read edge apex width) is only one parameter the knife performance depends on, while used together with SET, this tandem should give us pretty comprehensive idea of the whole edge, not just its apex, what to expect of it and how it will perform.