05-23-2018, 06:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-23-2018, 07:03 AM by KnifeGrinders.)
@Edgepal - yours is such a powerful argumentation, but unfortunately too often all the arguments fall on deaf ears.
I am not talking now of the fellow forumers, but of myself.
Not so long ago I was in the tenants of the same popular fallacies.
But now I am absolutely confident that, no matter what task it is for, the knife benefits from the sharpest edge apex you are able to put on the steel it is made of, while the cutting task determines how much "meat" it needs behind the apex i.e. what the edge angle should be.
The only exception I can think of is skinning a valuable fur with a duller knife as a precaution not to cut it through.
I am not talking now of the fellow forumers, but of myself.
Not so long ago I was in the tenants of the same popular fallacies.
But now I am absolutely confident that, no matter what task it is for, the knife benefits from the sharpest edge apex you are able to put on the steel it is made of, while the cutting task determines how much "meat" it needs behind the apex i.e. what the edge angle should be.
The only exception I can think of is skinning a valuable fur with a duller knife as a precaution not to cut it through.
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