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"Unnecessary redundancy"

Whatdidyoumeanbythat? J/k.

Cliff, it seems like a barrier to a lot of forumites' understanding is the muddled use of terms like strength and toughness, these are simultaneously technical (how you use them) and lay terms (used randomly). People are going to continue to ...

I'd like to borrow this thread to say,

HEY CLIFF: Is your site down mate? Everything OK out there in the Canadian boonies?

RealityBites, I appreciate the point you're making here, and it gives me more confidence to call it out if I see it in future, rather than avoid it, or perhaps just make veiled comments at how puerile someone might be being.

I actually went from lurking to joining the forum to try and counter some ...

I think we have to be careful not to segregate ourselves to imply we are some kind of elite users... Most of the knives I sharpen locally, which are just for normal people (ed. Uh-oh! j/k, I know what you mean.), are ground very thin. I have posted extensive pictures and geometries on the forum. I ...

I have gotten tired of playing word games with you because that's all we're really doing here.

Hey, if you give up, that means I win by default!

What I meant by the 30° bevel underperforming, was that more acute angles slide through stuff (fruit, plastic packaging, cardboard, meat, everything ...

I'm aware of (and greatly appreciate) your testing Cliff, I just figured I would refer only to the testing Chuck had selectively referred to.

What I found interesting about that page is the relatively small differences between a lot of the steels. It confirms a bit what Stuart and Chuck were saying ...

I don't think this argument actually holds, that the geometries I use are extreme in a general sense.

Well, yes your edges are not extreme among people with a strong understanding of steel, blade use, sharpening, and identifying and rectifying the various kinds of edge damage that can occur.

But ...

I didn't make that connection.

You heavily implied it, denying it would be insulting to yourself, and to people reading.

What I said what that Cliff's testing skews his data in favor of low alloy steels. I also said that his results are so far off the common experience of the mainstream and I ...

Thanks for the welcome Sal, appreciate it.

Chuck, not everyone who understands basic scientific principles is a puppet of Cliff Stamp. Unless Cliff Stamp was himself an identity assumed by anonymous science types everywhere, a beacon of obsessive controls, statistics and results analysis. A bit ...

I know what blind testing is for baby. ;)

The problem is that you can skew tests to favor a certain material with z characteristic you know is superior at a certain specification.

Let's get the beetle and ferrari again and test them for fuel mileage. Guess which one comes out on top.

I don't ...

No Cliffy, any substance can't go against it's chemistry.

Chucky Baby, that's the point blind testing is supposed to make: by eliminating bias. If you know what the steel is, all the personal opinions and expectations you already hold about that steel colour the results; ie, go against it's ...