Quote Originally Posted by tonycraigo View Post
'Teeth' reach out and grab a hair that normally wouldn't pass a HHT on a polished edge with fewer teeth.
Kees,

This is why and how edge prefence becomes a personal prefence. All things being equal, and that is a very big assumption, much discussion and money spent for high end finishers is for the last bit of finishing. There is for me a sweet spot somewhere in between aggresive and completly refined. For me it comes naturaly(pun intended) with the finish left by a Jnat or an esher. Electron Micro Pics show the teeth set by a Jnat to look wavey like the way hanging curtains form soft folds, I suspect that an Escher would look similar. On synthetic stones the edge is uniform, but teeth are more angular. I long stopped doing the HHT diagnosticaly, it just did not do it for me.
For your present style of shaving, I can understand how you would like the slightly toothier type of edge.