03-08-2017, 05:12 PM
Welcome to the BESS Exchange and the SHARP PAD page! SHARP PAD is a product designed for and targeted at the home chef and sharpener. With that in mind, we do sell a very considerable number of Sharp Pads to professionals, enthusiasts and industrial users due to its convenient size and effective burr removal and work hardening features. When a SHARP PAD is paired with one of our edge sharpness testing models, it becomes an even more powerful and effective tool.
This page is not exclusive to discussions concerning our SHARP PAD product. It is titled “SHARP PAD” only because this is the page that EOU will be directing our consumer SHARP PAD customers to. All discussion relative to burrs and burr removal, edge straightening (rolling) and work hardening edges will be much appreciated here. Education is the purpose of this page so lots of questions and informed answers are the goals here. As always, and throughout this Exchange, we are much more interested in what you have found that works well as opposed to what does not work at all. If you’ve had good success with an alternative method or system we’d love to hear about it here.
At EOU we regard general knife sharpening as a two-step process. Raise a burr and then remove the burr you just created. Of course, this is a bit of edge sharpening "short-hand" but for the novice it helps to put the process into perspective. The SHARP PAD product does not contain abrasives and is therefore well removed from step one of our two-step process. It is our feeling that the home kitchen world is already awash in metal removal tools and products but nearly devoid of simple means and tools to remove the burr that these products leave in their wake. While we sometimes cringe at the metal removing result of many of these products we try to remain pragmatic in that most of these edges can still be converted into useful kitchen tools with a SHARP PAD and attention to the SHARP PAD operating manual.
Thank you for the opportunity to talk to you about SHARP PAD and I hope the conversation continues for a very long time. In the future and if information is required that neither members nor moderators can answer, then the appropriate Edge On Up personnel may answer under the collective Exchange name “EOU”. Once again, thank you and welcome to the SHARP PAD Exchange Page.
This page is not exclusive to discussions concerning our SHARP PAD product. It is titled “SHARP PAD” only because this is the page that EOU will be directing our consumer SHARP PAD customers to. All discussion relative to burrs and burr removal, edge straightening (rolling) and work hardening edges will be much appreciated here. Education is the purpose of this page so lots of questions and informed answers are the goals here. As always, and throughout this Exchange, we are much more interested in what you have found that works well as opposed to what does not work at all. If you’ve had good success with an alternative method or system we’d love to hear about it here.
At EOU we regard general knife sharpening as a two-step process. Raise a burr and then remove the burr you just created. Of course, this is a bit of edge sharpening "short-hand" but for the novice it helps to put the process into perspective. The SHARP PAD product does not contain abrasives and is therefore well removed from step one of our two-step process. It is our feeling that the home kitchen world is already awash in metal removal tools and products but nearly devoid of simple means and tools to remove the burr that these products leave in their wake. While we sometimes cringe at the metal removing result of many of these products we try to remain pragmatic in that most of these edges can still be converted into useful kitchen tools with a SHARP PAD and attention to the SHARP PAD operating manual.
Thank you for the opportunity to talk to you about SHARP PAD and I hope the conversation continues for a very long time. In the future and if information is required that neither members nor moderators can answer, then the appropriate Edge On Up personnel may answer under the collective Exchange name “EOU”. Once again, thank you and welcome to the SHARP PAD Exchange Page.