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in all seriousness, I appreciate the input from all you gentlemen.
I'll await further discussions with Roger Hamby and see where it goes. Sounds like the data is all there anyway and it would be redundant.

1.Lil' Temperance
2.Paramilitary 2
3.Manix 2
4.Caly 3
5.Endura IV

some people live to dream. Some people live to crush those dreams.

if people like you guys have no interest in buying a book to see such results, I'd have to be utterly stupid to buy a $100,000 machine for my own knifesturbating pleasure.

If I can't sell the book to knife snobs, there's nobody else to sell it to. I believe it is resistance like this that will cause the demise of progress and thus the end of the world.

Of course you would probably need permission from said manufacturers of the products you test to publish them in a book sold for profit Getting "permission to test" or such from manufacturers would compromise the integrity of such studies. In the same way that Consumer Reports insist on p...

All Good points, but for the end-user, the questions would center around the blade steel tolerances, deviations, performance range for given steels - for knives bought randomly on the free market. Questions surrounding the range of available steels from the inexpensive 440s to the zdp-189, s90v etc....

It sounds like it is financially justifiable, depending on its intended purpose. An academic could potentially justify such a purchase if meaning to use it for research and publish for instance. A businessman might consider its purchase in order to offer rental to such academics also. I would think ...

I was curious, does anybody know how much it costs to purchase one of CATRA's machines that do the standard hand-held knife edge cutting tests? It looks like it should cost more than $50k, but probably less than a $1million. If we're talking something in the range of $100,000 it might be affordable ...

DEVIANTS!!!

ok I admit it, I TOTALLY do this all the time.

-cut up pieces of rugs to make shelter, craft items, etc. -cut old bottles made of tough plastics like HDPE, PVC, PP, or polycarbonate - to make e.g. a funnel out of a chlorox bottle. -cut up magazines or books to use as kindling in a fire -cut open clamshell plastic packaging -sandwich making, as s...

AGree to all. But as long as Seki City is ok, that's truly all that matters right?

You need both. This is very obvious.

the 'lil Temperance.

I'm a normal, well-adjusted, law-abiding, man; raised Catholic & a former boyscout for 5 years. But I would rape & kill for that knife.

if that doesn't work, maybe some turpentine?

It is:

1) 440V Lil Temperance
2) Paramilitary 2
3) Caly 3 CF in ZDP-189
4) Manix 2 in CTS-XHP
5)Stretch CF in ZDP-189

Alot of youz are being a bit too harsh on this little gizmo. You can't expect something like this to perform miracles. For instance - determining the blade angle on a convexed point - impossible. An equation, yeah maybe, but not a number. I find that just as phaust outlines above, you can reasonably...

....Leonard Lee reverses these definitions (p.16 The Complete Guide to Sharpening, 1995), and I believe this is the current convention: that is, the primary angle is the main grind, then the secondary angle is the "micro"beveled point of contact or the tip. That is, "Spyderco puts a ...

I think this common confusion is because in Juranovitch's book "Razor Edge Book of Sharpening" 1985, p23, he calls the primary angle the actual angle of contact (or the beveled edge, or back-bevel). He calls the secondary angle the main grind, for instance according to his def, "Spyde...