Bench top vs. hand help hardness tester

Patrice Lemée

Patrice Lemée

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Which one would you use? I will be buying one in the next month or so and I am looking at imports, either an Enco/Grizzly one at around 1000$ or one of the few hand held imports you can find on ebay for anywhere from 600$ to 900$.

Which one should would you suggest?
 
I've got the grizzly for $1,000 and have never looked back. I don't believe there's
any sort of problem with the hand helds. I've calibrated mine prob once in 6 or so years and
check it fairly often (test blocks) when Rcing blades. For all the reasons above- bench
model.
Ken.
 
Thanks guys, bench top it is.
I was pretty sure that this would be the answer but I have to bring it back from the US and it is 200lbs so I was hoping that you would say hand held. :(
 
I have an old hand held and its spot on.. maybe there's slightly more of a learning curve with the handheld, but its consistent within -/+1 bought mine used on the bay for around 250 shipped.
 
Battle Creek Knives said:
I have an old hand held and its spot on.. maybe there's slightly more of a learning curve with the handheld, but its consistent within -/+1 bought mine used on the bay for around 250 shipped.
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I also use a hand held and have complete confidence in the results and as Battle Creek says, there is a learning curve.
Here is a short video I did a while back explaining mine and its use.
[video=youtube;lhBfAw1L5tI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhBfAw1L5tI[/video]
 
Thanks for the hand held votes and the vid Ken.
I found out that for once the price of the Import bench version is the same here in Canada, around 950$. Shipping should be about the same too so the only difference would be the 20% discount Enco sometimes have but that may not be enough for the hassle of bringing it back across the border. This one is 150lbs.
Looks more and more like this will be it.

Thanks again for your help. :thumbup:
 
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