Bryan Carbonnell just wrote:

> I have a very serious warning about the D&S Scary Sharp (tm)System!!



> Just be careful with SS. IT IS INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Others have written similar "warnings" (more like sharpening
epiphanies) in the recent past.

On the one hand, I'm glad to see that lots of new folks have found
a way to sharpen their edge tools to an appropriate level of keenness.

OTOH....   Bah, humbug!  SS just ain't all that special.  It is
reasonbly convenient if one hasn't already obtained a basic set
of stones and some means for buffing/polishing, but it's not
as if takes your irons and chisels into a a new range of sharpeness
previously unknown outside of Tibet.

Plus, as John DeLapp will no doubt remind us shortly, a blade that
sharp won't last long in many applications (but a super sharp blade
can't be beat for other things like paring chisels and smoother irons.)

Again, I've got nothing against SS: I've been using carbide paper glued
to glass for years for various things (including sole lapping, forgive me
Patrick. ;)   So, I'm happy people are finding new ways to sharpen
their edge tools, but I'm getting just a tad bored with the "I have seen 
the light" testimonials.

Sorry if this came off as a flame towards you, Bryan; that was not
intended.   

O.K., time to get some coffee into my veins before I kill someone.

-Don Berry

PS "The wrong side."

PPS (the PS was for the folks who mentally asked the question, "Which
    side of the bed did HE wake up on?")