I don't remember seeing this and a search turned up nothing but today I set my honing station up to look out the window and the thermometer just got over 0'F when the sun shined on it in the afternoon. Lots of time to play indoors!

I found a 44/20 'Manganese steel" that I thought would be fun to play with. It is in generally good shape but under the scope (50X) there were many pits in the bevel. The 1K norton was slow going to remove all the pits so I decided to try my new 400 Atoma. When the bevel was nice and clean I tried arm hair. I was pleasantly surprised at how it cut. After a few laps on the 1K it seemed to be much worse??? A while longer on the 1K and it didn't improve. It looked good to me? I have a heavily pasted paddle strop that I have been using for knives and decided to do a few laps. Much better. Went to the 4K Norton and felt it should be better but then stropped also showed improvement. I didn't strop after the 8K and finished on a PHIG.

I did my "normal" strop routine afterwards and did a test shave with a good dash of Clubman, (On a Sunday afternoon... ) and the shave was excellent.

Removing foil or wire edge? Any thoughts?