New high end cutlery edges?

[SHARPCO]

Sharpco,

There is an English idiom, "in the ballpark". I believe it orininated with baseball and means that something is reasonably close instead of exact. This lower level of precision does not mean that something is not useful. I think of the BESS charts this way. We have two well defined edge parameters. In the middle area there are many variables, many of which we can not control. The charts give us a starting point to develop our own skilled judgement. One of your customers might be perfectly satisfied with a new knife reading 350 BESS, until you resharpened that knife to a considerably sharper level. BESS readings which you thought were fine a year ago, might seem only acceptable to you today, and probably unacceptable to you next year. 

Growth is good, and the BESS tables serve us as a general guide.

Ken

You're right. But I think "new high-end cutlery edges" is a too accurate expression. And there are many affordable kitchen knives(new) in this area.