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Nornagest comments on Low Hanging fruit for buying a better life - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: taryneast 06 January 2015 10:11AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 07 January 2015 03:34:15PM *  2 points [-]

I don't think the bottom of a mug is capable of enough precision to make the Sharpie trick worthwhile (or even (=flat) enough to talk about choosing bevel angles), but here is more info about knife sharpening than most people need :-)

Comment author: Nornagest 07 January 2015 09:46:50PM 0 points [-]

It's never going to give you as consistent an angle as a water stone is, certainly. But I'd still expect a difference if you tried to bevel one knife to 30 degrees and the next to 12.

You may be right about the Sharpie trick.