Can I make a suggestion to the grand poobahs

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of this most excellent website? I am frequent reader and infrequent poster on this site. Much more blade and knife knowledgeable than the average bear but lightyears behind many of the regulars on here. One of the most frequent topics and questions that comes up and the same ground gets plowed over is......sharpening!!!!! It is clear that there is an incredible knowledge base amongst the members. How about a sharpening forum in the training section. Maybe a few pages with lots of pictures demonstrating different sharpening techniques and terms, (what the heck is this burr edge!!! I think I know but I have no idea how to verify if I have achieved it).
Love the site, enjoy it a lot. Just a suggestion that I think will be well received by other members that I sense get frustrated with the repitive 'how do I sharpen my....' questions.
 
It is a good thought. We would need someone who knows what they are talking about to Mod the forum.

Moved from the discussion forum.
 
Spark has taken the tact that he does not want a thousand micro-forums. And he's right. Until you get up to at least ten or so posts on a certain subject per day average over maybe four or six months by at least ten or fifteen different people during any given week, that topic is best left in a broader forum. Moving it into a sub-forum of its own before it's acheived that sort of critical mass will actually kill it.
 
There is a dedicated sharpening sub-forum on Knifeforums, it gets light traffic, but the posts there are worth reading. You may want to check it out.

-CLiff
 
I think it would meet your usage requirement, especially if the forum is called something like 'sharpening, sharpness and cutting performance'. Includes closely related items that seem to attract a lot of discussion
 
We do have a Sharpening FAQ. Beyond that, sharpening is a frequent topic in all the forums, with people asking how to sharpen a recurved blade, a convex edge, a tanto, I'm going nuts trying to get rid of this burr please help me, etc. It's hard to see how such a universal topic could be separated in a forum of its own. I think if we created a special forum for it that forum would get little traffic and the talk about sharpening would go on in all the other forums same as it does now.

Of course we could try to move all discussion of sharpening into the new forum no matter where it starts, but us poobahs are spending a lot of our time moving threads already -- and moving all the threads about sharpening would be a lot more of it.

I like the title Grand Poobah, though. Maybe I should change my title to that ... but should it be spelled Grand Poobah or Grand Poo-bah or Grand Poo-Bah or ...
 
Cougar Allen said:
I like the title Grand Poobah, though. Maybe I should change my title to that ... but should it be spelled Grand Poobah or Grand Poo-bah or Grand Poo-Bah or ...
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No, your a Super Poobah.

I'm a Demi Poobah.

Spark is the Grand Poobah... or is that Exhaulted Poobah.

If we make Spark Exhaulted Poobah, then you can be Grand Poobah, and I can be a full Poobah. I kind of like that idea.
 
But if we can convince the H.P.I.C. to accept a demotion to mere Magnificent Grand Exalted Poobah then I can be a plain ol' Grand Exalted Poobah and you can be a Grand Poobah. How does that sound?
 
I love sharpening, I love keeping my knives sharp (there are, of course, different types of "sharp" for different knives), and I love talking about sharpening.

It's amazing what you pick up, what different techniques and ideas other people are using, and I've already discovered some great ones here. I know I personally would *love* to see a dedicated sharpening forum.
 
Your best bet might be to do a daily search for threads with "sharpen" in the title. ("Sharpen" in the body would probably get so many hits it would overload and return an error message.) That way you'll find all the discussion of sharpening all over Bladeforums -- we have so many forums here I bet there are some you've never visited.
 
I have always seen the spelling as Poobah. Pewbah might work but lacks a certain jene se qua.
 
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