Quote Originally Posted by eKretz View Post
Thanks for posting the pics. I'm not sure you aren't getting some damage there. The photos show a darker spot near the edge where you are cutting the paper even after the single cut. Doing the math and using the scale from the electron microscope photo, his damage looked to be about 3-4 microns from top to bottom - on your 500x scope that would work out to ballpark .059" - .078" in your image if it was the same size as his. That dark spot at the edge sure looks pretty close to that, even in the first photo of the single paper cut. You may well just be repairing the edge enough by stropping post-paper-cutting to get a shaveable edge. I think it's not possible to say for sure at that level of magnification though.
Thank you for your observation. I am not sure I see the spot you mention but I do see a spot slightly below the edge, very near the paint. It doesn't seem to reach the edge? The red paint was to help me get the same spot, but as it wore away actually caused me to move the razor to the right. If you notice in the first pic after a cut, there at two small x's caused by glare, in the V left when paint was lost. Those x's can be followed thru the pics to better judge a single spot from one pic to the next. I expect if any stropping had been done Changed them to some degree. You may also notice that the pic from after the shave seems a little dull. I can only assume my very light wiping did not remove all soap film, but by the last edge pic, after 5 more cuts, the entire bevel seems much cleaner.

You will notice I did not attempt to evaluate the pics before. Figured I would leave that to viewers. But, I thought I did mention, and now realize I did not, NO stropping was done anywhere in this process. The shave after 5 cuts was delightful, but I could tell at the end of the last 5 cuts, another shave would not fair as well without stropping.
Thanks, Cheers