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

Originally Posted by Seraphim

That's a pretty smooth edge (Dovo Renaissance stainless). I used a hanging cavas strop.

That's pretty smooth if you're used to looking at 1 micron diamond. But it's pretty rough by 0.5 micron chrome oxide standards. Look at verhoeven's paper, page 27, figures 32 and 33. These were taken at 600x and 3,000x (with an inset detail at 10,000x) taken with a scanning electron microscope, and in the 600x shots the bevels look like a perfectly smooth plane. In the 3,000x shots the details look similar to yours - but at that point he's at six times your resolution. (If the angles look steep in these photos that's because they are. IIRC he's at honing at 48 degrees).