04-09-2018, 04:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-09-2018, 04:55 AM by KnifeGrinders.)
(04-09-2018, 12:49 AM)SHARPCO Wrote: Someone says, "You don't have to buy expensive BESS tester, you just need BESS media and a cheap kitchen scale."
How can you dispute this opinion?
He who says that didn't check what a quality scales cost. A cheap scale won't have the needed resolution. While a quality scale with resolution of 5 grams costs more than the PT50B, almost twice more; let alone the 1 gram resolution of PT50A.
Obviously, PT50 is more than a scale, it also has the platform over the scale for the fulcrum, and firmware with clever logic.
I've seen quite a few attempts to use common scales to test sharpness - the results are inconsistent to say the least;
I honestly think all these people are masochists - trying to make your own while having a BESS sharpness tester available is like re-inventing a bicycle but getting something hardly riding on its square wheels.
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