Gold medal: flat sabre grind in puukko style
Silver medal: full flat grind
Bronze medal: convex grind
Honorable mention: hollow grind
Just yesterday whittled some hardened pine. I used a carbonsteel puukko, Spyderco Calypso, Spyderco Moran, Kershaw big Starkey Ridge and Random Task. All were shaving sharp but Moran and Calypso were the best shavers (before this trial they had cut only hair from my arm). Result you can see above. Difference between the first three was not big but clear. Any one of these knives would have done extremely well in shallow cuts to the point that I probably couldn't tell the difference. Performance must be tested in deeper cuts IMO. Maby a thinner bladed hollow grind knife would have done better but for wood working it still is worst.
The handles had effect to results. How much? I can't tell.
Silver medal: full flat grind
Bronze medal: convex grind
Honorable mention: hollow grind
Just yesterday whittled some hardened pine. I used a carbonsteel puukko, Spyderco Calypso, Spyderco Moran, Kershaw big Starkey Ridge and Random Task. All were shaving sharp but Moran and Calypso were the best shavers (before this trial they had cut only hair from my arm). Result you can see above. Difference between the first three was not big but clear. Any one of these knives would have done extremely well in shallow cuts to the point that I probably couldn't tell the difference. Performance must be tested in deeper cuts IMO. Maby a thinner bladed hollow grind knife would have done better but for wood working it still is worst.
The handles had effect to results. How much? I can't tell.