Originally Posted by AFDavis11
Randy,
I tried your approach and shaved tonight. I have a microscope but its not as good as a radio shack. I'll head there soon. But your plan worked great. Best shave ever. And as you can imagine the blade is now WICKED sharp. I added some shave oil and lathered up after a quick wetting of my face. Shave took about 3 minutes and I was able to do some second pass stuff sans cream, it was that smooth. Very smooth. I did a few extra laps after your suggested sets and ran over a .5 micron paste as well. I only do shave testing (as I'm just not that good with other tests).
I was already pretty certain that the striations were all over the place. I was under the mistaken impression that they didn't matter or your objective was to hone them down into non-existence. Is the idea to leave them there and make them all parallel to each other?
It would have never occured to me to run a sharp razor over the 4000 for 20-25 passes, thanx
I'm going to go back to something easy now like teaching aero....