How sharp is the knife sharpened by CATRA?

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We won't try to comment on their edge retention claims or "gothic arches" but with respect to the question "Why on earth wouldn't CATRA back up their sharpening machine's credentials with some CATRA sharpness testing numbers?" we'd offer this defense on CATRA's behalf. "How would they present these sharpness test results in an easily understandable and concise way?" Some peaky little graph that runs between this number and that number means nothing to most people. It might mean something to a CATRA technician but not to most people. The only way to give the test numbers relativity would be to compare this sharpened edge to another sharpened edge but we still wouldn't know what that comparison really meant. Could be comparing a 500 edge to a 600 edge or a 125 edge to a 175 edge. We just wouldn't know without a fair amount of explanation.

Let's be thankful for CATRA. They plowed a lot of virgin territory in this industry.