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I don't remember how long ago I honed this razor (Tuckmar stainless), but I hit it up with Dovo white pasted canvas prior to every shave, and it has been giving me great shaves for quite some time now.
Close, comfortable, long lasting shaves.
So I decided to take a look at the edge:
50x
200x
500x
1000x
Just graphically shows what I've said all along..... if you limit your magnification to 30x your honing will improve dramatically. :roflmao Thanks for the photos .... very interesting.
Interesting set, thanks. :)
This razor isn't quite as comfortable, for some reason:thinking::
http://i.ebayimg.com/23/!BcKuG+gBGk~...y0JwQ~~_12.JPG
very interesting and eye-pleasing pictures.
Nice honing skills :beer1:
Edit: what the... ah, come on, I wasn´t referring to *this* picture
btw. seeing the last picture, this is the first time I would actually recommend
honing the spine rather than the edge. Would be less complicated.
I would recommend maybe 10,000 to 20,000 circles on a 325 diamond plate :hmmm: Then pyramids with the x stroke. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Seraphim
Seraphim, your blade is in good shape after so many shaves. And, I bet your blade is in better shape than some might think after viewing the images. When I started using the Radio Shack 100x microscope, there were some "flaws" in my blade that look quite similar to the "flaws" seen at higher magnification in your pictures. But, I noticed they had a predominate direction. On a hunch, I wiped the blade again, but this time with the last swipe of the cloth in the other direction. Sure enough, now the "flaws" in the blade had the opposite predominant direction.
I suspect some of the "flaws" seen in your blade are simply droplets of oil, or some other substance. It surprised me how difficult it was to completely rid a blade of these droplets or streaks.
The diagonal streaks are oil residue. The edge I do not think is obscured by this.
The faint lines perpendicular to the edge are caused, I believe by the Dovo white paste.
Would you use tape?:wQuote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
I agree. That is why I said at the top of my post that some might interpret the pictures as showing flaws (in the bevel) that were not flaws.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seraphim
Is it just me or does the very edge, I mean the edge of the edge of the edge, look really bright in comparison to the rest of the bevel? The last little 1/100mm.
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Originally Posted by AFDavis11
I agree.
I like to put edges on the edge of my edges when honing!:nj
Like, dude, that's really edgey.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seraphim
I'm not positive, but I may know who honed that :hmmm: :rofl2::rofl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Seraphim
Bluto can show you how to achieve an edge like that:
YouTube - Popeye - Clean Shaven Man
:rofl2::rofl2:I would add a Tetenus vaccine as well!Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
:rofl2:
Bluto's edge test looks a bit risky...:p
not to say about that atg, sweeping coup d'maitre...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sticky
Using Jimmy's theory that would would look better viewed at a distance with a telescope rather than under a microscope :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Seraphim
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Originally Posted by onimaru55
Most Ebay sellers simply prefer an out of focus cellphone pic....
About the edge of the edge looking especially shiny, paraphrasing, which was mentioned earlier...
I use the Radio Shack 100x microscope, and have spent a lot of time viewing my blades. The same shiny "edge of the edge" occurs with my razors. My viewing setup is a goose neck lamp, with a lump of play dough sitting on a book, with the razor pressed into the dough to hold it steady. This allows me to view the razor without shake, but allows me to easily move the blade. Using this technique, it is easy to rotate the blade to put the optimal light and the focus up the blade, away from the cutting edge. When I do this, the gleen on the shiny edge moves up the blade until it reaches the edge of the bevel.
Because of this, with my edges, I don't think the edge is any more polished than anywhere else on the bevel. It's just the portion of the blade that is highlighted by the light source. The corollary statement, I believe, is that I am viewing the rounding of the bevel.
I suspect this applies to the photos above.
The light source on the microscope those images were taken with comes directly out of the microscope objective lens itself through the miracle of beam splitters, and other such high falooting optics wizardry...just FYI...
This razor has a problem?Quote:
Originally Posted by Seraphim
I actually bought a batch of six just razors with big chips out of the blades. Not quite as bad as the previous post.
How exactly do blades get chipped like this? An angry wife maybe!