Posts by Dr Owl

Hello AJ,   I’ve been through the same decision recently, culminating in the purchase of an Edge Pro Apex last month.  Your mileage will vary, but it may be useful to outline what I found on the way.   In 38...

  Originally Posted by boar_d_laze  I'm thinking about adding another couple of knives to the block and maybe rotating a couple out.   At the top of my wish list are a 30cm suji and another...

Congratulations, Troop.  I hope you will be very happy together.

Thank you Chris.  There's a lot of useful and apposite information there, which I have endeavoured to take on board.  Your post was long but clear.  Very much in the spirit of Pascal, when he wrote, "I'm...

    Originally Posted by Phaedrus.  Among many other things, he, or possibly she (*), wrote:    You may want to consider getting the 2x6" DMT XC or C...

Thank you both.  Yes it was quite a long question.  Thank you for taking the time to read, and answer, your way through it.   I have surfed the other forums, but am reluctant to post there because of the high level...

My interest in joining this community is in learning more about sharpening.   The Pussycat and I bought our first good kitchen knife, a carbon Sabatier chef’s knife, in 1972.  With it we bought a sharpener comprising two...

That's very gracious of you, Troop -- thank you -- but I must deny being an expert.  I'm a retired mathematician, and a wine buff, who came here to how to sharpen better.  It's the Pussycat who is the cook in our...

Goodness, Troop!  You have thought about your ideal knife in detail.  Thank you.   And thank you for the photographs: they make your dreams very clear.   A number of thoughts ran through my mind as a read...

Quote: Originally Posted by trooper  ... the UX-10 at about 9 1/2" ... isn't the greatest knife in the world and not the worse either. It just works for me.    Just out of...