Tman,
Thomas is a good name, solid, useful, wonderful - and we all are very handsome
I am not from old times really, I am just me. I have lived a nice life and I still do that. I, as most Swedes, love the nature - and I have had the fortune and luck to be able to spend a lot of time there. Earlyer in the high mountains - and sins 30 yaars in the Forest.
When I say Out in the Forest, I live in a house of cause, a big old timber house, 101 years old, very modern and comfortble.
Yes, I have use knifes thins I was 10 years old, I like to work in wood, I am a knifemaker, I draw, painted before, play guitar, sing somerimes but my wife allways beg me ro stop with that for some reason...
Now am I retired - but I have a hobby, I solve sharpening problems and make sharpening tools. I use my experiance to so that and it keep my brain and fingers working good and smoth.
The most advanced sharpening tool I have made is named IcePal. IcePal sharpens ice drills (augers). Ice drills edges are very complicated. People have problems to get knifes sharp - and knifes have knly one dimension edges. Ice drill edges have three dimension edges - and IcePal sharpens all three dimensions at the same time perfect. The edges have 40 degrees in one end - and 20 degrees innthe other end, ghey are concave - and also screwed. I think I am most "proude" of IcePal - and when you se IcePal it looks like nothing, a piece of scrap
Chef is also advanced but in another way. If I remember correctly Chef hqve 16 functions that I was first with, built in protractor, sharpen both flat and convex edges, constant distance of 28 cm between the edge and the pivot point, the protractor allways shows the correct degrees with all blade width, adjustble down ro 1/100 part of 1 degree, and so on - and of cause, I make them by hand, every part. No part are massproduced in China. I have become a shatpening rool maker in my old days.
Pptps://i.ibb.co/7KK0pwZ/MINOLTA-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg
This picture shows a Mora knife edge I have grind in 25 micron diamond sharpener from Norton Abressives. I made first the complete Esge. Then I made a 1/100 parts of 1 degree higher angle ans made the secondary "bevel". I made the scratches diagonal in sifferent directions so it is possible to se what I have done.
Look also on the back bevel, straight with a perfect line
This is not bragging of my sharpening skill, it is a bragging of what my tool Chef can perform. Everyone who have a Chef can do this.
I like precsision. Not every day of cause - but I like to have a choise to do what ever I like to do with an edge - and to do it with full control.
Thomas
Thomas is a good name, solid, useful, wonderful - and we all are very handsome
I am not from old times really, I am just me. I have lived a nice life and I still do that. I, as most Swedes, love the nature - and I have had the fortune and luck to be able to spend a lot of time there. Earlyer in the high mountains - and sins 30 yaars in the Forest.
When I say Out in the Forest, I live in a house of cause, a big old timber house, 101 years old, very modern and comfortble.
Yes, I have use knifes thins I was 10 years old, I like to work in wood, I am a knifemaker, I draw, painted before, play guitar, sing somerimes but my wife allways beg me ro stop with that for some reason...
Now am I retired - but I have a hobby, I solve sharpening problems and make sharpening tools. I use my experiance to so that and it keep my brain and fingers working good and smoth.
The most advanced sharpening tool I have made is named IcePal. IcePal sharpens ice drills (augers). Ice drills edges are very complicated. People have problems to get knifes sharp - and knifes have knly one dimension edges. Ice drill edges have three dimension edges - and IcePal sharpens all three dimensions at the same time perfect. The edges have 40 degrees in one end - and 20 degrees innthe other end, ghey are concave - and also screwed. I think I am most "proude" of IcePal - and when you se IcePal it looks like nothing, a piece of scrap
Chef is also advanced but in another way. If I remember correctly Chef hqve 16 functions that I was first with, built in protractor, sharpen both flat and convex edges, constant distance of 28 cm between the edge and the pivot point, the protractor allways shows the correct degrees with all blade width, adjustble down ro 1/100 part of 1 degree, and so on - and of cause, I make them by hand, every part. No part are massproduced in China. I have become a shatpening rool maker in my old days.
Pptps://i.ibb.co/7KK0pwZ/MINOLTA-DIGITAL-CAMERA.jpg
This picture shows a Mora knife edge I have grind in 25 micron diamond sharpener from Norton Abressives. I made first the complete Esge. Then I made a 1/100 parts of 1 degree higher angle ans made the secondary "bevel". I made the scratches diagonal in sifferent directions so it is possible to se what I have done.
Look also on the back bevel, straight with a perfect line
This is not bragging of my sharpening skill, it is a bragging of what my tool Chef can perform. Everyone who have a Chef can do this.
I like precsision. Not every day of cause - but I like to have a choise to do what ever I like to do with an edge - and to do it with full control.
Thomas