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The Delica is a flat grind, but not a _full_ flat grind. The faces of the blade are parallel for about half of the blade's breadth near the base (this is called a "saber grind").
Imagine your knife is a wedge (scratch that; your knife _is_ a wedge
) The more acute the angle of the sides is at the edge, the easier it'll drive through whatever you're cutting.
Holding my FRN Delica and Calypso Jr next to each other, the Calypso's blade may be the teeeeeeniest bit thicker than the Delica's, but it's virtually imperceptible (I'm sure one of the forumites has a precision caliper sitting next to his computer
). _But_ the Calypso's blade is "tapering" over the entire breadth of the blade (about an inch), while the Delica's is "tapering" for only about half an inch. I don' do math too good, so I can't tell you the value of those angles, but I _can_ tell you that I'd rather push a wheelchair up a ten-foot ramp than a five-footer, to reach the same height.
So the _blade_ may be a hair thicker, but the _edge_ is thinner. And in my experience, that makes all the difference.
(Btw, don't get me wrong, I love my Delica to death. It's a great knife that'll serve you very well. The Caplypso is more of a refinement to me than a fundamentally "better" knife.)
Imagine your knife is a wedge (scratch that; your knife _is_ a wedge
) The more acute the angle of the sides is at the edge, the easier it'll drive through whatever you're cutting. Holding my FRN Delica and Calypso Jr next to each other, the Calypso's blade may be the teeeeeeniest bit thicker than the Delica's, but it's virtually imperceptible (I'm sure one of the forumites has a precision caliper sitting next to his computer
). _But_ the Calypso's blade is "tapering" over the entire breadth of the blade (about an inch), while the Delica's is "tapering" for only about half an inch. I don' do math too good, so I can't tell you the value of those angles, but I _can_ tell you that I'd rather push a wheelchair up a ten-foot ramp than a five-footer, to reach the same height.So the _blade_ may be a hair thicker, but the _edge_ is thinner. And in my experience, that makes all the difference.
(Btw, don't get me wrong, I love my Delica to death. It's a great knife that'll serve you very well. The Caplypso is more of a refinement to me than a fundamentally "better" knife.)
