The Tourist
Banned
As you know, many of us would like to build this forum into an arena of great interest and participation. Additionally, this creates the possibility of melding some of the best professional tinkers in the USA with many of you foodies and chefs.
In effect, you and only the NC members can garner information usually available to only cordon bleu chefs and members of four star restaurants. I've even offered to polish a knife for Sattie at no cost to demonstrate the services you may not know about.
Well, I think the tinkers might need a new place to play.
One of the mods at KnifeForums has asked the professional tinkers to "dumb down" our discussions of sharpening, inferring that our contemporary discourse is "too zen."
Frankly, I'm not going to change or lessen the way I think, sharpen, sell, relate or wash my hands by one scintilla because a mod finds it easier to regulate. I got that shabby treatment once in a cooking forum. That very mod is now struggling through a sharpening regimen I would have given him for free.
The discussion of new innovations, prototypes, ideas and ideals will go somewhere. Why not here? And any member who simply reads such information will benefit, in education, understanding and the ownership of the best cutlery the professionals can provide.
If the discussion is stifled as unwanted, and if our exchanges are parsed, would you members feel that such posts and threads are welcomed here?
We may need a sub-section entitled "Professional Tinkers." We do joke around. We've known each other for many years.
There probably are less than ten professional waterstone tinkers in the entire USA, with one in Canada. I know most of them.
We may need a place to play.
In effect, you and only the NC members can garner information usually available to only cordon bleu chefs and members of four star restaurants. I've even offered to polish a knife for Sattie at no cost to demonstrate the services you may not know about.
Well, I think the tinkers might need a new place to play.
One of the mods at KnifeForums has asked the professional tinkers to "dumb down" our discussions of sharpening, inferring that our contemporary discourse is "too zen."
Frankly, I'm not going to change or lessen the way I think, sharpen, sell, relate or wash my hands by one scintilla because a mod finds it easier to regulate. I got that shabby treatment once in a cooking forum. That very mod is now struggling through a sharpening regimen I would have given him for free.
The discussion of new innovations, prototypes, ideas and ideals will go somewhere. Why not here? And any member who simply reads such information will benefit, in education, understanding and the ownership of the best cutlery the professionals can provide.
If the discussion is stifled as unwanted, and if our exchanges are parsed, would you members feel that such posts and threads are welcomed here?
We may need a sub-section entitled "Professional Tinkers." We do joke around. We've known each other for many years.
There probably are less than ten professional waterstone tinkers in the entire USA, with one in Canada. I know most of them.
We may need a place to play.