Thread: Thirty Thousand

Originally Posted by pipeguy

I agree with you, about how do you know when you've gone past a great edge. I too own a scope to help me see what I'm doing, or not! Yea Dr. Matt has influenced me some too, but I am I wrong to believe that the smooth bevel extends right off of the edge? If so then the smoother the surface the cleaner (less "toothy") the edge? As you see I'm new to this also and am really enjoying these forums. I am also learning more about slurries too.

The qualifier is not that there are scratches in the bevel but how deep they are. If you have 1k scratches remaining at the time you finish there may be problems with the edge & you needed to do more intermediate honing not polishing.
If you have 8 or 12k scratches which are very prominent under a scope, no biggy.

IME I found that until I got shaves with a scratchy looking bevel that rivalled the most polished edge I thought it was necessary to keep polishing tho some razors, eg stainless, will sometimes benefit from extra polishing time.