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The Sharpest Knife Contest in Sydney 2018 - KnifeGrinders - 07-31-2018

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RE: The Sharpest Knife Contest in Sydney this weekend - Rupert Lucius - 07-31-2018

Great attention grabber -

For sure another winner

Rupert

RE: The Sharpest Knife Contest in Sydney this weekend - EOU - 08-01-2018

Thank you Knife Grinders and Australian Knife Magazine! Very nice advertising piece indeed!

RE: The Sharpest Knife Contest in Sydney this weekend - Jan - 08-01-2018

Really nice leaflet, KG, congrats! Smile 

Jan

RE: The Sharpest Knife Contest in Sydney this weekend - grepper - 08-01-2018

I would be interested in hearing the results and the range of contestant submissions.

RE: The Sharpest Knife Contest in Sydney this weekend - KnifeGrinders - 08-04-2018

Sydney The Sharpest Knife Contest leaders for Day 1

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Nathan's Opinel Carbone scored 40 BESS
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Nathan bought the Opinel Carbone knife in the show, the factory edge scored near 400 BESS.
Nathan went to the JENDE Industries table, stropped his Opinel on the JENDE nanocloth strops with polydiamonds, and the knife scored 40 BESS!

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In the Kitchen knives category the leader is Peter J. Bald, whose Chef's Damascus knife scored 25 BESS. Peter sharpened this knife with Edge Pro.

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Non-kitchen knives scored in the range from 325 BESS to 40 BESS, the majority of the knives brought to the contest scored between 150-190 BESS.
Kitchen knives typical score was between 90-165 BESS.

Another happy PT50B BESS sharpness tester owner - Sem from Sydney.
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Near 2000 visitors a day
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RE: The Sharpest Knife Contest in Sydney this weekend - KnifeGrinders - 08-05-2018

The Sharpest Knife Contest finalists by results of 2 days of the Sydney Knife Show

GENERAL KNIVES CATEGORY (non-kitchen)

1st
Opinel Carbone knife - factory edge sharpness near 400 BESS.
Nathan Stuart from Ashtonfield NSW bought the knife in the show from Joint Pacific Trading, took it to the Jende Industries table, and stropped his Opinel on their display nanocloth strops with polydiamonds.
The knife scored 40 BESS, sharper than DE safety razors.
Nathan wins the Award for the Sharpest Knife 2018 and the PT50B Professional BESS Sharpness Tester pictured on the photo.
Congratulations to Nathan! - Nathan's freehand stropping talent has turned a $21 knife into the $310 prize!

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2nd_best
Julian's knife with beautiful etching scored 150 BESS, shaving sharp.

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(Better scoring knives on the show had been sharpened by Knife Grinders and were not eligible for the Contest.)

KITCHEN KNIVES CATEGORY

Kitchen 1st
Peter J Bald from Adelaise SA
Chef's damascus knife 25 BESS, sharper than the best safety razor.
Peter sharpened this knife with Edge Pro.
Peter wins the Australian Knife Magazine Award for the Sharpest Kitchen Knife 2018.

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Kitchen 2nd best
Fabian Kreilaus, FK from Illawarra NSW
San-Mai carving knife 75 BESS. This knife is just 25 nano-meters short of a safety razor. This is sharper than scary or crazy sharp, and for the lack of a better term we call it insane sharp.
Fabian sharpened the knife on waterstones.

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Kitchen 3rd best
Tobi Bockholt, Metal Monkey Knives
Carving damascus knife 90 BESS;  Metal Monkey Knives are crazy sharp... crazy monkeys Smile

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SHARPNESS ON THE SHOW

Custom made non-kitchen knives sharpness ranged from 150 to 325 BESS, with the majority of the knives scoring between 160-235 BESS.
Factory non-kitchen knives scored in the range of 210-490 BESS; only the ROCKSTEAD folding knife scored 160 BESS.
Custom made kitchen knives typical sharpness was in the range of 130-175.

SHARPNESS CHART
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Buyers of the BESS PT50 Sharpness Testers on the show included knife and axe makers, a straight razor maker, and sharpeners.

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RE: The Sharpest Knife Contest in Sydney 2018 - grepper - 08-05-2018

25 eh? Must be something in that Australian air that's turning out such talented sharpeners. Smile

RE: The Sharpest Knife Contest in Sydney 2018 - KnifeGrinders - 08-05-2018

(08-05-2018, 07:41 PM)grepper Wrote: 25 eh?  Must be something in that Australian air that's turning out such talented sharpeners. Smile

Maybe the air Smile  
4 months ago the same knifemaker Peter Bald scored in the Adelaide show 35 or 25 BESS on a different PT50B, and test done by a different person.
The winning knife has 34 degrees included edge, and Peter says it took him 30 min on Edge Pro to sharpen it.

When I took the first measurements, the knife scored 50 to 35 BESS along the edge - Peter said he didn't touch the knife since the last show; he gave it a few strokes on a paddle strop to remove the oxidation, and the knife scored 25 BESS.

The Metal Monkey Knives have all knives 90-95 BESS sharp, telling of a very consistent sharpening method.

Fabian's FK knives also initially scored 90 BESS - I advised him to strop on a clean leather strop to get rid of the oxidation layer, and the knife scored 75 BESS.
In his photo you see massive fighters close to where my son stands - they scored 160 BESS, and I tell you it is not easy to get such sharpness on that heavy big knives. For comparison, the famous ROCKSTEAD folding knives scored 160 BESS.

RE: The Sharpest Knife Contest in Sydney 2018 - Mike Brubacher - 08-06-2018

Do Australians know how to sharpen knives? Yes, I think so. This is quite the knife sharpening story KG. The only knife story that I know of that would compare is the professional job that you and Michael at Australian Knife Magazine do in putting these contests on. Simply one more huge success for both of you! This is the sort of thing that makes an industry grow and does so in many ways. First and foremost it generates interest and sets the bar. Now other sharpeners know what is possible and they can gauge their efforts against those achieved across the world. My hat is off to the winners for their remarkable edges and to Knife Grinders and Australian Knife Magazine for putting together a really well run contest. My personal thanks to those who participated and especially to those who made it happen!