What time is the Party?

Not much activity. here…. The backbone of this forum are the people who purchase this system and participate in its use, share experiences and photos and discus how this system has changed their knife sharpening experience. IM sorry that such a fine instrument can not be used to bring a bunch of people together with a common interest. While I agree, this system is so easy that even a child could do it. There are people out there that may not get it.

Anyone willing to spent 300 to 800 dollars to sharpen a knife, must have common interests. Knives, tools, hunting, culinary skills, and be on a financial level to afford such a system. etc. this forum does not have to be specifically about the purchase of a wicked edge systems, its just the roots of what could be a fun forum. Activity is cultivated by common interests and also the ability to offer feedback to other who find their way here. this includes comments to other members who post here. No one want sot post to an inactive forum… Meaning that no one will post if others will not make comments on that post. If you want to help grow this community, get involved.. read the recent post, offer comments, and on occasion start your own thread.

Bill aka ET

Clay, just incase you haven’t noticed, I can be a motor mouth.. If I like something, Ill support it. If a forum can handle general comments and experiences outside the actual wicked edge system, more people will get involved. People find their way here because they are either considering the system or already have it.  If this is just a question and answer forum, then no one will come here unless they have a question. Once the question is answered, they don’t come back… If that is what you want, its your property… if you want to grow a community, then you have to allow personalities to enter. Ive been involved with an automotive forum since I retired from General motors 15 years ago. When the forum was started we had two supporting vendors and a couple of hundred members, 15 years later, we have 5 million members, and 200 ( edited from 300 ) paying supporting vendors. these vendors all pay 300 a month to advertise to a captive audience. thousand of people flock to that forum daily, check in see what going on, say help to friends they have never met. We have many member who have been on that forum for 15 years. Another nice plug in is the addition of a real time chat window… an interactive place to talk in real time…. you usually find all the regulars from all over the world, checking in when they log on… its fun… but the bottom line in any forum is the commonality of the main purpose of the forum. ( Promoting wicked edge and its products ).  If you had a couple thousand people coming here a day, you could then sell vendor space.. ( vendors are all those guys with booths at those shows… you tell them you have a high water mark of a few thousand member, they would be very interested in that captive audience to promote their knives, sheathes, lanyards, etc.  when you get 5 million members you can charge 300 a month.

I certainly am not advocating running before you can walk…I understand the start up of a New forum and new soft ware development is time consuming and labor intensive.

Like they say, a journey of a thousand miles  starts with one step.

Bill aka ET

EDIT… we have 200 supporting vendors, not 300… IM going to change that to 200 .from 300

I don’t know how this forum was before, but the forums  I am on , all are fun and informative with a community of personalities, that people want to associate with. Nothing wrong with a forum being a hang out. For example… I used my ultra sonic cleaning  tank today to clean my stones. I set a bridge inside the tank that suspended the block above the solution and only the stone was submerged. this worked great to remove the embedded steel…. The problem was the stone feel out of the block… It vibrated the stone enough ( in 2 minutes ) to disconnect from the glue that holds the stone on the block. I then took a very sharp chisel, and removed the glue, and then re-glued the stone… This is some information to share, in the event someone else has an issue. So now IM back to the scrubbing method and the alcohol

The ceramic…  …Curious… would there be a difference between the glue on the ceramics as oppose to the glue on the Diamond stones? I only did the two ceramics, and stopped.

I liked what the ultra sonic did, and the bridge that suspends the block just above the solution.  this is a bridge that came with my ultra sonic machine used to clean glasses and watched. the notch in the bridge are perfect size for the block, as if they were designed specifically for these blocks.. Ill post up a few pictures shortly…

Definitely glued in…. I scrapped the glue off the blocks before regluing them . Not sure how the tape will fair with the ultra sonic, but if they come lose, I can use double sided tape to re affix them. I like the ultra sonic tank for its function. Its not like I’m sharpening knives every day, but the first week of ownership I’ve sharpened a couple dozen knives.  I may do a few touch ups during the week, but probably will never sharpen so many knives again in such a short time. The white ceramic stones showed a lot of evidence of black metal embedded in the white stone. After the ultra sonic, the stones where clean.,

MY W.E. is very new. its possible that the new blocks might be using glue… Ill try a set of diamond stones and see what happens.

Thanks, I can see the need to elevate from the recessed block. I’m guessing the film blocks  are very thin strips with an adhesive back. I can see the need now, for a smooth and thick  mounting surface… TYVM  ( in my best Elvis voice )