EDGE RETENTION/ROLLING PART II

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I've been meaning to get these results pasted for a little while now. My first batch of SET results with a range of different knives.

I decided to focus on a couple of main ideas, degradation after series one and two, and degradation after a recovery strop. Of course these are closely related to the starting sharpness and edge angle.

The reason the Series 1 column says cycle 5 series 1 is that I was recording the BESS score after each cycle. This proved not to be useful, so I gave up.

You will see that in most cases the degradation after the recovery strop is negative meaning it got sharper. Clearly my edge preparation is not perfect, and my strop is quite effective.

Anyway, these results are what they are, so may be interpreted as you see fit. I will be continuing and working with more steels.