DeTerminator said:
Chico, for all you have contributed
Ahhh, now if only the clients would contribute...
As you know, I am also a member of KnifeForums. We are currently testing a Japanese style polished edge on a late model Veff fillet knife.
It demonstrates a major thing about the historical innovations of tinkers.
I bought stones from Ben Dale--he and others aided me. Ben Dale was a tinker, someone aided him. Follow that chain of events long enough and you come to our sainted little man of wisdom, the BLMBRM.
*
I encourage others who are interested in sharpening by any system or mode of freehand to get a book on sharpening and polishing Japanese cutlery and take some time to learn about and appreciate a craft.
I was delighted to hear that forum moderator, Mike Stewart, himself a cutler of Bark River Knives, refer to the edge on the knife I sent him as "magnificent." Consider the meaning of this in the world edged tools.
Mike, a skilled craftsman and nationally known cutler, a proven knife maker with the full scope of modern tools easily at hand, looks upon the edge of a BLMBRM and praises that teaching.
Oh,
Determinator, your credit is good (not great, but good
) and I'd be happy to look after your Razel at any time.
* a humorous referral to the unknown Japanese polisher in history that took the mud of a river bed and used it to make samurai swords. It stands for "Bent Little Man with a Bucket of Red Mud."
