I have a beautiful filarmonica razor that I godd for cheap at a flea market, and it shaved reasonably well when I bought/stropped it.
Then it began to cause me grief in the form of razor burn.
After some time, I finally equipped myself with a really good tony miller strop setup, chromium oxide on balsa setup, wonderful norton hones, a handheld microscope - the works.
NOW I see what is causing my grief - literally.
It seems that my blade edge is in fact quite uniform in bevel/polish, but there are these holes that "appear". one hole has been "breached" by the edge, so now it looks like an omega ( Ω ) under the microscope. After much thought I decided to try to hone away this and other irregularities in my razor's edge, only to be surprised by the emergence of one or more other holes! These start to appear well away from the edge, up the bevel, but still before the rest of the blade past where the bevel begins.
I have no idea how to address this issue, and it seems that only more of these holes will start to appear as material is removed.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance