Originally Posted by
bigeasy1
No quote. General answer to the last several posts.
I will not attempt to argue the point of paper cutting. Obviously regular readers here will never accept the possibility of his being acceptable, long enough to learn to use it. It makes no difference to me if you only have a lot of different tests that only test at specific points. That said, You may want to consider what you are looking at in the previous post, and compare it to your own 200x pictures. These most recent pictures are 25X more magnified. Where are the striations? Even a strop would have left more than are in this picture. You are looking at a rolled edge approx. .0001 mm wide, across the roll .005 mm will comfortably shave your face. Check the 0's. It means nothing without the before picture and a picture from after just 1 shave. And as everyone here has already accepted, a magnified picture will not tell what will shave well, only the shave will do that. I saw a study done with numerous electron microscope pictures and explanations some time back, including actual measurements. The study showed pictures taken at different stages of finishing an edge. One outcome of the study was pronounced to indicate that stropping on leather has no benefit. You all believe that don't you? The proof is in the pudding. Anyone not willing to bake the pudding will never find the proof. Nothing I can say, or pictures I can show, will change that.
Cheers,