08-11-2018, 03:05 AM
Grepper,
Your innovative work never fails to amaze.
As you know, my sharpening background for the last nine years is primarily Tormekcentric. (I love being able to make up works in my old age. :
Anyway, here is a link to a garden variety in drawer knife block:
https://www.amazon.com/Included-Pointing...2380&psc=1
Notice how the knife blades all have their sharp edges pointing downward where the evil forces of gravity compress the edges against the bottom of the block. Several years ago, one of the Tormek support staff advised me that he had instructed his children never to put a knife back in the block resting on the edge. Ever since then, all of the knives in my knife block have the sharp edge facing upward. The slots of my knife block all have wood covering the tops; the upward orientation is safe. This means that the sharpened edges onlt come in contact with air. (I had to abandon my efforts to make the kitchen an anaroid environment due to my wife's complaints that it interfered with using the gas range and made breathing difficult, a small price to pay for sharp knives.)
I don't know how much effect the orientation of the knives in the block has on sharpness. My guess is that any contact of the edge with the block beneath it would be a negative impact. I am currently running some unofficial tests of Tormek's new diamond grinding wheels. I will incorporate your suggested BESS overnight readings with both edge on up and edge on down storage. (Sorry, Mike, the devil made me made that bad pun.
Ken
Your innovative work never fails to amaze.
As you know, my sharpening background for the last nine years is primarily Tormekcentric. (I love being able to make up works in my old age. :
Anyway, here is a link to a garden variety in drawer knife block:https://www.amazon.com/Included-Pointing...2380&psc=1
Notice how the knife blades all have their sharp edges pointing downward where the evil forces of gravity compress the edges against the bottom of the block. Several years ago, one of the Tormek support staff advised me that he had instructed his children never to put a knife back in the block resting on the edge. Ever since then, all of the knives in my knife block have the sharp edge facing upward. The slots of my knife block all have wood covering the tops; the upward orientation is safe. This means that the sharpened edges onlt come in contact with air. (I had to abandon my efforts to make the kitchen an anaroid environment due to my wife's complaints that it interfered with using the gas range and made breathing difficult, a small price to pay for sharp knives.)
I don't know how much effect the orientation of the knives in the block has on sharpness. My guess is that any contact of the edge with the block beneath it would be a negative impact. I am currently running some unofficial tests of Tormek's new diamond grinding wheels. I will incorporate your suggested BESS overnight readings with both edge on up and edge on down storage. (Sorry, Mike, the devil made me made that bad pun.
Ken