Thread: My razor is too sharp???? I like a duller edge??

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Hone or paste past this mystery blade's max level of .47 then you would overhone and the edge fails at least that is what I am saying... in very simple form

Glen i agree with you on this 100%.
Basically you are saying you can get from razor certain sharpness after that edge just melts (ss blades) or just small chips forms (mostly 16k will do it). or bends over honing.
This is correct.

But there is some issues in here .
factor one
maker
steel
hardening how has been done. Example
some blade will never take a good edge LOVELY pakistany blades. etc.

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

Glen i agree with you on this 100%.
Basically you are saying you can get from razor certain sharpness after that edge just melts (ss blades) or just small chips forms (mostly 16k will do it). or bends over honing.
This is correct.

But there is some issues in here .
factor one
maker
steel
hardening how has been done. Example
some blade will never take a good edge LOVELY pakistany blades. etc.

Yes exactly each razor has a max level period....

This has pretty much been proved to be around the .48 -.38 micron level by way of the papers the Mr.Parker has linked and most of us have read...

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

But there is some issues in here .
factor one
maker
steel
hardening how has been done. Example
some blade will never take a good edge LOVELY pakistany blades. etc.

Verhoeven also looked at steel hardness and edge thickness and found a correlation there, though it wasn't huge. But he only looked at I think 58-64hrc steel not the cast iron that the pakistanis use.