04-19-2018, 11:17 AM
Thank you very much for your support of the BESS KG and Mark both past and present. Mark is among the very first to see the value of a universal sharpness scale and KG has worked very hard to make the system known in, not only his corner of the world, but the entire world. So thank you both very much!
As I indicated in a previous post, Blade Banter (hereafter referred to as "BB") and I have corresponded several times privately and I can tell you that he is a bright guy with good ideas. He has been forthright with me about what he is attempting and I have offered him both advice and help in his endeavor. He asked me, in advance, if he could post his questions to the Exchange and I said "absolutely". We have to distinguish between what EOU and BESSU are doing from the efforts of folks like BB. As KG alluded to, there have been people trying to accomplish what BB is attempting for many years and a few have enjoyed some degree of personal success with their projects. We have one fairly prolific member of this Exchange who has done exactly that. These home-made systems can be very useful in a relative sense. Much more useful than many of the anecdotal methods used, in our opinion. Of course, what they all lack is the ability to communicate their sharpness information to the rest of us in a meaningful way. Every day we get emails filled with descriptions of edges and BESS sharpness numbers and we know and understand immediately what our customers are telling us. If you want to know the truth and with no doubt in my mind, that is the most gratifying part of this job. Sales numbers don't really excite me, BESS numbers do.
I can't say for certain what BB's aspirations include with his project but I can say that we are all on the same side with regard to quantifying edge sharpness information...and that's a good thing.
As I indicated in a previous post, Blade Banter (hereafter referred to as "BB") and I have corresponded several times privately and I can tell you that he is a bright guy with good ideas. He has been forthright with me about what he is attempting and I have offered him both advice and help in his endeavor. He asked me, in advance, if he could post his questions to the Exchange and I said "absolutely". We have to distinguish between what EOU and BESSU are doing from the efforts of folks like BB. As KG alluded to, there have been people trying to accomplish what BB is attempting for many years and a few have enjoyed some degree of personal success with their projects. We have one fairly prolific member of this Exchange who has done exactly that. These home-made systems can be very useful in a relative sense. Much more useful than many of the anecdotal methods used, in our opinion. Of course, what they all lack is the ability to communicate their sharpness information to the rest of us in a meaningful way. Every day we get emails filled with descriptions of edges and BESS sharpness numbers and we know and understand immediately what our customers are telling us. If you want to know the truth and with no doubt in my mind, that is the most gratifying part of this job. Sales numbers don't really excite me, BESS numbers do.
I can't say for certain what BB's aspirations include with his project but I can say that we are all on the same side with regard to quantifying edge sharpness information...and that's a good thing.