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It's in your blood! I'm impressed you managed to stay out of the industry.

I appreciate that feedback and will definitely work on a page for this purpose. Great idea. It's one of those things where it's so clear to me that it's hard to lay it out as barebones to people that don't yet get it.

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Yeah, that's one of the difficulties. That's probably why the Guinsu knives people ended up having those demonstrations where they cut bricks, metal, etc., to capture the customer's attention quickly. I would not personally go that far though!

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Oh, for sure! That kind of display is wildly effective but unfortunately misleading. Part of the problem is that a great knife will cut a carrot, a garbage knife will cut a carrot, a house key will cut a carrot. Displaying their abilities isn't easily captured in media. I'll work on it.

There's ways you can show it without it being stupid. For inspiration, have a look at the following:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ddFtftDKzI * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTHD2J2za6Y * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVWZKCmEq1A

The what you want to get across is the effortlessness of cutting with a really sharp knife made with VG10 or similar Japanese carbon steel, vs what you're going to get out of a more traditional German or French knife with something like X50CrMoV15 or similar stainless.

A good video explaining what's going on with the differences between knives would probably help a lot.

Dear lord the hours! I enjoy having a life too much to go in to it! :p

That said, I cook basically every night, and I've got some toys I suspect you'd enjoy. Good luck with it!

Yeah. The hours. It's life-absorbing.

Good for you! Thanks for the luck.

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