Cutlery articles

• Properties of Blade Materials:
  • ABC's of Steel Selection for Cutlery, Kevin McClung
  • Cutlery Stainless Steel Classification, Cliff Stamp
  • Edge Stability, Cliff Stamp
  • General Reference, Cliff Stamp
  • Steel Selection, Kevin Cashen
  • Types of Edge Failure, Steve Elliott
  • What are the steels you use, Jay, and why?, Jay Fisher
• Knife performance
  • Cutting Ability:
    • Haptic Rendering of Cutting : A Fracture Mechanics Approach,Mohsen Mahvash and Vincent Hayward
    • Basics of Leverage, Cliff Stamp
  • Sharpness:
    • Development of a compact apparatus for measuring knife sharpness for learners of woodworking, Chutaro Kato, Hideo Sato and Koyo Kitta
    • Durability of Cutting Performance of a Knife and Micro-Structural Change of a Knife Edge, Kunia Takekoshi and Manabu Gotoh
    • Ease of Sharpening, Cliff Stamp
    • Experiments in Knife Sharpening, Dr. John Verhoeven
    • Knife Maintenance and Sharpening, Chad Ward
    • Measures of Cutlery Sharpness, Cliff Stamp
    • On the cutting edge : Tooth blade sharpness in herbivorous and faunivorous mammals,Tracy E. Popowics and Mikael Fortelius
    • On the sharpness of straight edge blades in cutting soft solids : Part I - indentation experiments,C. T. McCarthy, M. Hussey, M. D. Gilchrist
    • Sharpening a knife, Dee Griffen
    • Sharpening Secrets of a Pro, John Juranitch
    • Stropping with various Stropping Compounds, Brent Beach
• Myths / Hype:
  • The Anatomy of Hype, Kevin Cashen
  • Episode IV- Revenge of the Bladesiths, Kevin Cashen
  • Forging, once and for all!, Kevin Cashen
  • The No Bull Zone, Mark Henry
• Experimental Techniques
  • Method :
    • Testing Knives ... The Way I See It., Ed Caffrey
    • Measurement Consistency an Introduction, Cliff Stamp
    • Physical Consistency an Introduction, Cliff Stamp
    • Data Bias , Cliff Stamp
  • Analysis :
    • Edge Retention Modeling, Cliff Stamp
    • Edge Retention Analysis, Cliff Stamp