Thread: "Sharpness" - is it a bevel issue?

I had an hour and a half or so on the razor again this afternoon.

Mixed bag. I gave is a few swipes on my DMT and then started from scratch on a 1K stone.

Good for my ego = it picks up hair nicely along the blade, I have a very smooth left leg to support that.

Bad for my ego. The pictures look absolutely rubbish. Although the razor seems to sit flat, negative wobbling, I have, particularly, a toe on the "branded" side f the razor (Name = TOWA) which is narrow and relucant to lose magic marker (although I did manage to remove the magic marker from the edge), and a heel on the opposite side of the razor (unbranded side) which is similarly reluctant to lose the magic marker and forms a narrow bevel.

So, first few pics are towards (branded side) toe, middle, heel
Then away stroke (unbranded up) toe middle heel.

I then decided to do a bit more, and ended up getting a ??wire edge with light coming back from the
I've given two examples below, can't remember what part of the blade those photos were from

APOLOGIES, I forgot to rotate the first two