Quote Originally Posted by Wolfpack34 View Post
1+++...I agree completely Zib! I've always thought that a microscope was a redundant piece of equipment...Just IMHO! I wonder how the SR shavers and Barbers from the last few hundred years ever managed to get along without them...

We do not know what kinds of edges did the old barbers achieve with the stones available, chances are they were good edges but not quite like what we are talking about on this forum today. If I understand the history of SRP, in the beginning there was the Norton 4/8k, not this is considered a stepping stone to finer edges.
A scope can be useful tool, for me for example visual inspection of the edge tells me all I need to know about it. To each his own.