What a great thread! I have learned a lot here in the last couple of days. Thanks! I know that I am a couple of days behind here but it has taken me that long to read and digest all the posts along the way.

I have one! I am willing to except the 0.50 (plus or minus) as the probable minimum edge thickness. The question that I have is this. I hone to 16K then I go to 0.50 and 0.25 micron diamond pastes. The way that I would understand it is that when I finish with the 0.25 diamond I am just polishing the edge a little more. I then go to the Chromium, which is 0.5 micron, and do about 15 laps on the paddle. The claim in the past is that this dulls the razor, but if I understand everything up to now it should not. It should just knock the rough edges off the top of the scratches that the 0.25 diamond left. This is what I have found to be true with my particular way of honing a razor. I did not start using Chromium till about 6 months ago and the degree of smoothness was vastly better.


Thanks,
Richard