Bevel Grain

**onimaru55** · 10-27-2011, 06:37 AM

Don't attribute anything magical here just something pretty that happened whilst honing.
Was working this Case Red Imp wedge on a Jnat & noticed something I have seen on occasion but never succeeded in photographing with my cheapo USB m'scope.
The bevel shows a grain pattern close to end stage of polishing. I understand some carbon steels will show this alloy banding effect when etched or polished but I thought this one was particularly cool & looked a bit like wood grain so thought I'd share with my fellow honeristas.
The last 2 pics are at the higher end of mag. which is supposed to be 200x but the lower end shows up the effect better I think. And no it's not my fingerprints

**coachschaller** · 10-27-2011, 11:35 AM

Very cool! The pics are good as well.

**FriedLiverAndOnions** · 10-29-2011, 01:16 AM

Very clean, crisp bevel. Would you mind sharing your honing process pertaining to stones and technique?

**onimaru55** · 10-29-2011, 01:40 AM

Originally Posted by FriedLiverAndOnions

Very clean, crisp bevel. Would you mind sharing your honing process pertaining to stones and technique?

Stones & technique are really secondary to razors with good geometry. A clean, crisp edge bevel is ALWAYS a reflection of the spine.

IIRC I used my Shapton Pros 1k - 12 k to rebuild the edge after the restoration. If you mean the polish I just spent a bit of time on it testing a stone I may buy.

**jeness** · 10-29-2011, 01:21 PM

Looks like damascus or wootz pattern, very interesting. I have only seen this on a few blades while polishing, never on the edge.

**Mike Blue** · 10-29-2011, 01:47 PM

It does kind of look like wootz but is really alloy banding, or grain banding. I bet everyone honing with a microscope is going to go wild looking for this stuff on their blades now.

Now you have to polish up the spine and see what you get there...(not like you needed more work to do).

I'd be curious to know if the makers of Red Imps could possibly have overlapped with the use of shear steels? Those can have a subtle lamination look to them. Another possibility would be the use of some Sheffield crucible steel because that could also produce some of this kind of crystalline appearance.

**nun2sharp** · 10-29-2011, 02:58 PM

Thanks for the pics, that is interesting to say the least, nice bevel btw, as if you didnt know.

**EisenFaust** · 11-25-2012, 01:36 AM

We will have to see if my Morris red imp wedge shows anything similar Os

**onimaru55** · 11-25-2012, 02:58 AM

What "we" keemosabe ?

You bring the razor, I let you use the stone

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