Originally Posted by str8razor
Well, gentlemen I finally got this SOB to shave petty good.
I finally just did my own agressive honing. I honed it 20 or so laps on the Norton 220, 1000, 4000, 8000 and the Shapton 12000, .50 micron diamond paste on a paddle strop, leather strop. That put a real fine edge on it as far as the thumb goes. What is weird is after each honing round I looked at it with a 150X microscope to see what was going on and after each one the edge still had a minute irregularity but the striations kept getting smaller/smoother which was expected. Under 100X the irregularity wasn't as noticeable. However, regardless of the minute irregularity in the edge it shaves pretty well probably within 85 to 90% of my TI's.
Thanks for all of your help. Guys this is a really fun hobby/sport/addiction/whatever.
Bill Watkins