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06-16-2015, 05:36 PM #19
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Diamonds cut aggressively and leaves a deep groove/stria in the beve, the larger the diamond, the deeper the cut. At the edge the bevel ends in a void or at least weakened steel, a micro-chip, you can feel it on your face as a Harsh edge. Think of a comb and the edge of a comb, exaggerated but a good example.
Steel has a memory and once molecularly crushed by the deep groove, at the thinnest point the steel will be weakened and when thinned further, e.g. a finish stone, it will be prone to chipping.
You can take a perfectly good shave ready edge and strop on 1um or.50 diamond, look at the edge and you will see the same thing, especially when stropped with pressure.
Even if you do not see chipping, once the edge gets straight, 8K it can chip after a finish stone or later with just regular stropping and the edge is further thinned.
Enough of the steel, the depth of the groove will need to be remove, a lite bread knifing or 2-3 regular honings will do it.