Quote Originally Posted by alx View Post
This is just one way to take a blade to polish, it will take some effort. I suspect that the the polished edge is somewhat less tenacious then a honed to finish edge but maybe someone else has more experience than me as my opinion is just a suspicion and not an acutal shaving trial with the same razor day after day after day until the edge fails.
I've no idea re the durability of a microbevel on a razor but it's not necessary. Simply using featherlight strokes will concentrate the stone to the edge especially when using water. Slurry does tend to polish further up the bevel.
Even at 1k, if you set the bevel with slurry you will see the edge start to shine up on changing to water alone using light strokes.