Thread: The bevel under magnification (pictorial)

First pic is the damage as discussed above & at 20x mag

A fair bite into the bevel from "rinsing the blade" .
Porcelain & steel are a razors enemy where paper &/or towels are 'friendlies'.
Notice the shiny bits on the edge as previously mentioned.

Honing was started on a Shapton Pro 320 with only one layer of tape using a diamond plate slurry. This resulted in some scratchy overruns but they do look worse @ 200x.
3 layers of tape for chip removal is always a better approach but here we are warts n' all. This stage was very quick. 5 mins or less.
Next stone was 1k Shapton Pro, again very little time spent here. Just enough to gain some smoothness. I didn't record any of these stages but my aim was to focus on bevel set & finish not repair. Soooo many pics anyway.

Pics here are from Shapton 1500 grit @ 200x mag.
First pic is the toe & looking ok for 1500 grit & 2nd pic is just forward of heel. Notice in pic 2 the shaded ragged area.
This is remnant from 320grit /1k. Toe is not bad. Heel bevel is not complete tho starting to cut arm hair.
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Pic 3 is also near the heel & shows more roughness.

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Pic 4 shows improvement from about 40 very light strokes just on water no slurry on 1500 grit. Moved on to 2k after this.

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Next 2 pics are @ 200x.
Shapton Pro 2k with slurry. Again toe & heel.

A few slight glints at the toe. Time to move on.
Heel area , slight improvement on toothiness.

200x pics.
Shapton Pro 2k with water only. Toe & heel.
There is a slight wire at the toe a little down from top of pic or I touched the m'scope with the edge.
Heel is shaping up ok.

Same 2k pics with slurry again but at 20x .









And 2k with water only at 20x.
Even at 20x heel is still showing some light reflecting of the very edge, lower left corner of pic. The cue I mentioned before that all is not perfect yet

Moving on to 5k Shapton Pro ,water only. @ 200x mag
Still some shiny bits on the edge.







Same view @20x

After 5k moved onto a Tsushima Jnat as an experiment as it's new & had an unknown place in progressions yet.
From the pics I would say it took me a ways back so maybe better suited after 1k or even as a 1k or maybe best left for knives but here are the 4 pics.
Mind you a ragged appearance in an edge does not always equate to a rough shave when it comes to naturals so I moved onto a finer stone.

First 2 @ 200x & then next 2 @ 20x







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