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Finally found the Verhoeven paper, which should help correct the overemotional rhetoric and ad-hominem attacks in this thread.


Experiments on Knife Sharpening
September 2004
Prof. John...

His photos do not demonstrate what he claims they demonstrate. To see submicron features requires a microscope capable of a very high magnification. There have been multiple papers published...

yes. As I've stated several times in this thread, those photos don't demonstrate what that poster claims they demonstrate.

I'm quite sure he didn't. You can easily get two photos that are similar to the two he showed, without ever touching the blade to a hone, just by changing the angle that the light is striking the...

Not if you're just interested in shaving.

But if you're interested in comparing scratch marks from various hones then it helps to make sure that you've got the light consistent across shots. And...

The other big problem is that at 25x those pictures aren't really even showing the results of the shapton or nakayama no matter what the lighting happens to be. They're showing the results of the...