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You can have my Futur when you pry it out o my cold, dead hands...



As for coating...Glenn, the way I understand coating of DE blades is, the coating seeps into all the little serrations that remain in steel after grinding and polishing, kind of filling it in like spackle. The platinum/ceramic (in the case of Feathers) covers those serrations so it makes a smoother shave. I guess good stropping on good steel has a similar smoothing effect in straightening out the serrations, but they're still there, aren't they? (I'm speaking with very little knowledge of straights, except what I've picked up reading this forum and the Wiki religiously for the past week or so...I'm genuinely curious, not trying to be argumentative.)
I don't think that it fills in the serrations. In the pic I linked to earlier, you can see that the edge has a fair bit of structure to it. My straights are much smoother than that, but the Feather "glides" better. I think it's a coefficient of friction issue, not a physical smoothness issue.