Dan, great suggestions, I’m passing them along to the webmaster to see if we can include them. Thank you.
How are people determining the “recommended angle” of these knives? Is it their personal preferences or something that is more objective?
For me it is at least in part personal preference. I often follow the manufacturer’s angle. That is relatively easy for me, since I have a goniometer. However, sometimes I sharpen the knife to a sharper angle. This may be because the manufacturer set a very obtuse angle on it. For example, I have a Becker BK16 that was sharpened to over 30 degrees per side). In some cases I also think the knife can handle a sharper angle. For example, I always try to sharpen a sujihiki (Japanese slicing knife) to as sharp an angle as possible.[/quote]
Mark,
Right, I think this is an issue with the database. In my estimation the database needs THREE more columns for each entry:
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I would like to see a “comments section” so that we can leave comments regarding the entry we make to the database for a particular knife. I think 500 characters in a little box might be a good idea. A little space for user comments would be enough.
2.) Username of the contributor of the data and
3.) Usage Intent of the sharpen, i.e. kitchen use, axe wood chopping, EDC, etc..
To give you an example about why I think this is necessary is my own case in particular. When the database was announced I thought “Gee that’s a neat idea, and I have at lest a dozen knives that I can put in there..” Then when I looked over the database I realized that I could put in none of them, because it would confuse anyone looking at my entries. My CRK Sml Sebenza is a perfect example. This knife comes with a factory convex. Clay has a video on how to sharpen it with a modified taper grind. I have done mine with a standard V grind. So we need to be able to list all these possible “option grinds” in the database with a brief narrative in a comment box of each possible choice. If I was to just “plunk down” my V grind data with no explaination, it would make no sense whatsoever to someone scanning over the database.
Just my 2 cents[/quote]
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