Thread: Light

Maybe that Beam of Light you keep seeing, is coming from above; it is Easter you know,,,,

The "beam of light" created from a strop is different than the light you will see when honing. If the edge reflects light when honing signifies that the bevel and edge don't meet to form a V. A slack strop can cause light to reflect on the edge. The doesn't mean you will have a poor shave as long as it isn't really slack and rolls the edge. When stropping you want the spine to deflect the strop and in doing so making it taut against the edge making it lay flat. I don't know if stropping causes the extremely thin metal at the very edge to convex and cause a micro bevel and reflect light or just clean the edge. Either way as long as it shaves beautifully that is all that matters. At high magnifications it can make a extremely comfortable shaving razor look like something you wouldn't want to touch to your face.

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What a great movie!

Perhaps this is a diffraction as Sommerfeld explained in 1896 - it's Math. Ann., 47 (1896), pp. 317–374

Originally Posted by JSmith1983

The "beam of light" created from a strop is different than the light you will see when honing. If the edge reflects light when honing signifies that the bevel and edge don't meet to form a V. A slack strop can cause light to reflect on the edge. The doesn't mean you will have a poor shave as long as it isn't really slack and rolls the edge. When stropping you want the spine to deflect the strop and in doing so making it taut against the edge making it lay flat. I don't know if stropping causes the extremely thin metal at the very edge to convex and cause a micro bevel and reflect light or just clean the edge. Either way as long as it shaves beautifully that is all that matters. At high magnifications it can make a extremely comfortable shaving razor look like something you wouldn't want to touch to your face.

I do hold the strop extremely taught although there must be some give in it.
So it could actually be a mini micro bevel or just the very edge getting polished up...

PMSL love that scene in bugs life
That how me RAD calls me in my head

Off topic you know that pizza delivery is the one off toy story LOL
Watched these a hundred times with my kids now the Grandkids start again LOL