Originally Posted by
Euclid440
As said, the marker ink test is not a test of sharpness, or that the bevels are meeting. It will only tell you, if you are honing to the edge.
If you take your photo and open in a photo editor and magnify 200x you will see, the edge is fuzzy and likely, not meeting. You can see it in your pic, if you know what to look for.
So, a couple thing first, what are you stropping on?
Did you lap the Norton’s flat? What with?
Which brand of Chrome Oxide are you using and what is it pasted on? Not all “Chrome Oxide” is pure or razor quality. If it is not pure, it will leave an edge exactly like you have.
What are you taking your bevel pics with? Nice pic, by the way, and nice even stria pattern.
You can get nice shaving edge with a Norton 8k and Chrome Oxide, but it will take some work and you will need to master or at least learn to strop better. A razor edge is very thin and fragile, we cannot see it until at lease 1000X.
Stropping while not really that difficult, most folks, over think it, it can take some time to master.
Look at the Toxic sharpening video and make sure the bevels are meeting fully as show in the video, then strop on Chrome Oxide using light pressure, keep the spine on the strop, stop and flip… and go slow, with little pressure.
A single swipe on a strop can easily ruin a razor edge.
And tape the spine, to protect it until you learn to hone. New honers often cause irreparable damage to the spine, tape at the least will pirevent that.
In your case, you are probably very close, a single layer of tape and 10-15 laps will probably get your bevels meeting.