If I could make wishes come true it would be to meet the folks here and absorb information. There are likely things about knife sharpening that I don’t know but I don’t know that I don’t know them. So imagine being in a room together and maybe one of you is an expert at etching. I don’t know too much about that so I stop at your table, bleed you dry of information that I need, then move on to the expert in refinishing blades at the next table. And so on. Maybe someone could stop at my table and learn something.
It would be a STA.....Sharpening Think Tank.
That is what I’d like to do.
How do you rate your own sharpening skills?
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Re: How do you rate your own sharpening skills?
...Jeff B wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:51 pmGrading is stupid, you can either sharpen or you can't. If you can't your pitiful, I can so that makes me great.
How's that Joe?
You are right though, amazing that a conversation like this could go this many pages without any obvious negativity interjected.
This truly is a great and supportive community.
So basically you want a P/F scale, how elementary
Re: How do you rate your own sharpening skills?
The topic is cumbersome enough at this point it needs to be spun out into others.
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Re: How do you rate your own sharpening skills?
It would need to be topics for any given grading system, to start. I think a post defining sharpening and a post on why grading sharpeners is or isn't good would be fine, too.
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Re: How do you rate your own sharpening skills?
That really would be cool Peter!Peter Nowlan wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:07 pm If I could make wishes come true it would be to meet the folks here and absorb information. There are likely things about knife sharpening that I don’t know but I don’t know that I don’t know them. So imagine being in a room together and maybe one of you is an expert at etching. I don’t know too much about that so I stop at your table, bleed you dry of information that I need, then move on to the expert in refinishing blades at the next table. And so on. Maybe someone could stop at my table and learn something.
It would be a STA.....Sharpening Think Tank.
That is what I’d like to do.
If God wanted me to be a vegetarian he wouldn't have made animals taste so good.
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Re: How do you rate your own sharpening skills?
And here I was hoping for 10 pages lol. Great thread, but my head is exploding after reading through it all.
I'm at a bit of a quandary. I don't know that we can really satisfy the op or if it is even warranted.
I guess I'll rate myself as a c, but with further study hoping to become an A
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Ken
I'm at a bit of a quandary. I don't know that we can really satisfy the op or if it is even warranted.
I guess I'll rate myself as a c, but with further study hoping to become an A
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Ken
Re: How do you rate your own sharpening skills?
X2. - I would be graded an F--- but still trying to learn.