Esteemed colleageus and research associates,

OK, so here is a thread about my new razor: Wustof 5/8

I have pics of the edge at 200x coming right off the 1um diamond lapping film (honed straight up and down, dry).

Then the same edge after 15 laps on a lightly coated chrome ox hanging strop (stropped at an angle)
and then stropped on new TM "smooth" cavas and latigo (straight up and down, as it is a 3" strop, I also mistakenly called it "linen" for some sleep deprived reason...? It's truly canvas).

As can be seen, the bevel has been rounded/smoothed out significantly, and striations are visible in a diagonal direction.

So, the abrasion was carried out by the chrome ox (as per the diagonal striations), and there is little or no visual evidence of what the subsequent canvas and latigo stropping did to the edge. However, perhaps they contribute to simply smoothing out the striations that are there.

As I stated in that post, next time I'll skip the chrome ox and see what canvas and latigo do by themselves.

Nice thread & discussion, thanks guys!