Originally Posted by
gssixgun
I'm quite sure that they are nearly exactly the same width across the bevels. Verhoeven demonstrated that the limits for the edge width arrive at a surprisingly low abrasive grit, something around 4k or so, and that going up to 8000 grit and higher (he went up to 0.5 micron chrome oxide) doesn't change this fundamental sharpness.
So why do you hone your razors beyond 4k? Why use the yellow side of the norton, or a coticule or escher. Why do people argue about which gets a sharper edge, when the edge isn't getting any sharper? Something else is being done to that edge, something besides making it sharper. Something that doesn't make it sharper as measured across the bevels, but makes it feel and act for all the world as if it were sharper.
Exactly!!! Thank you, Discussion done...
Sharpness is one aspect, and smoothness is another....
The actual thickness of the edge is sharpness, how it feels on your skin is smoothness...
This is what I have been saying all along, any more talking on my part and I will sound like that guy that doesn't like the word "Splash" :)