My old and slow laptop needs a pacemaker after all the bandwidth it had to sort through lol.
Yes interesting pics
Coiloil in a post not far above yours claims to prefer knives with perpendicular grind lines. You show an Erickson knife with parallel grind lines and perpendicular lines on a Crotts knife. It got me to thinking about how many (most?) knife makers spend considerable time and effort in sanding out those perpendicular grind lines and eliminating all grind lines as much as possible. Some knifemakers will say that perpendicular grind lines aren't finished knives. I'm not saying that, but there is a suggestion out there that perpendicular grind lines shouldn't be visible (by the naked eye) on a knife.
I do my best to sand out the perpendicular lines. It's work that I don't enjoy but tend to think it's a necessary evil. After some of the comments here, I will be making some knives that will show perpendicular grind lines and see how that gets judged by the critics.
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