To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
From: Bram van der Sluys <bvdsluys@direct.ca>
Subject: Re: [baidarka] Red cedar ribs
Message-Id: <E0zAHOV-0004V2-00@edam.direct.ca>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:24:03 -0700
At 10:55 AM 22/08/98 -0000, you wrote:
>
>Bram, absoulutely the best and most informative book on sharpening I have
>ever seen is John Juranitch's, "The Razor Edge Book Of Sharpening". There
>have been countless books and articles about "How I do it in my shop", by A.
>Expert, or "How Uncle Clem done it in his shop" by A. Journalist. Juranitch
>actually does stuff like look at the edge under a microscope, and give
>sharpened tools to people to use in blind tests before he comes to his
>conclusions. An amazing amount of nonsense and folklore has been passed
>around about sharpening - really a lot of it is wrong. Try Juranitch's book
>and see if your results don't come closer to your expectations.
>
>That name of yours couldn't get much more Dutch...are you posting from
>Holland?
>
>Gene Smith
>where we are currently drowning instead of baking
Thanks Gene, I'll try to get a copy of the book. The reason I've never
gotten a book is exactly for the reasons you describe, there's a whole lot
of meaningless B.S. out there and I hate wasting good cash for that. Yes my
name is dutch but I left Holland in 1950 so by most definitions I'm a
Canuck, living in North Vancouver, B.C., Canada where it has only rained
lightly twice in the last 45 days. That's not too hard to take seeing as the
temp is rarely over 30 and the R.H. stays under 70.