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I'm a pretty lazy sharpener and tend to leave my edges and bevels pretty coarse.
One insight I first heard from Cliff Stamp, and that made a lot of sense once I thought about it, is that in general coarse (toothy) edges will have better slicing edge retention and polished edges will have better retention in push cuts (aka, chopping
). I thought it was cool that several of the responses here make a lot of sense from this perspective.
Rob_Mob really nails it with getting the best of both worlds with a polished bevel to reduce drag, increase corrosion resistence, etc... and a toothy micro bevel for the edc slicing aggression (I'm just too lazy to do it). But of course Mr. Brown wins too
One insight I first heard from Cliff Stamp, and that made a lot of sense once I thought about it, is that in general coarse (toothy) edges will have better slicing edge retention and polished edges will have better retention in push cuts (aka, chopping
). I thought it was cool that several of the responses here make a lot of sense from this perspective.Rob_Mob really nails it with getting the best of both worlds with a polished bevel to reduce drag, increase corrosion resistence, etc... and a toothy micro bevel for the edc slicing aggression (I'm just too lazy to do it). But of course Mr. Brown wins too
