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

One thing you have to be careful of with verhoeven's paper is making sure he's doing what we're doing. He does a lot of stuff with tormek machines and various abrasives, and somewhat less with flat hones and leather strops, and the two results are different because of the speed of the tormek machine and the additional angles involved (the razor can't lie flat on the wheel).


Here's two spots where verhoeven talks about this in a relevant context:

Page 23:

"Japanese waterstones in the 6000 to 8000 grit range produced an excellent edge on
these HRC = 60 stainless steel blades with as-ground 2β edge angles of around 40o. The
waterstones produced fairly smooth and quite straight edges as viewed face-on. The
remnant bur width was quite small, on the order of 0.5 microns"


page 24:

"Stropping of the waterstone sharpened blades on a leather strop loaded with chrome oxide compound produced a significant change in the edge geometry of the blades. The abrasive grooves from the waterstone sharpening were smoothed out significantly. The edge bur width was not reduced significantly below the 0.5 micron level of the waterstone ground blades, but it was perhaps a bit more uniform along the edge."


(reading furiously)