The goal of polishing the edge?
Hi everyone, I am new to posting in this site but have been reading all of the info contained in the tutorials and threads for a while now; thanks to everyone for all the great info.
My question is this: What exactly is the goal when polishing the edge. After setting the bevel and working with pyramids on the Norton 4/8 my razor shaves pretty good. When polishing with a 12K and inspecting the bevel with my microscope I can clearly see that after only a couple of passes the edge becomes polished i.e. pretty smooth. After a 10-20 passes the entire bevel becomes polished in this way. Is this the goal, or is this going to far? Should I be stopping at a point short of this to retain some of the striations from the lower stone, 8K, in order to maintain some "teeth" to grab the whiskers?
Thanks.
To get back to topic.......
WELLLLL,
To get back to topic here.... Tonight my experience showed a HUGE difference between the 8K and the CroOx polishing in my blades ability to cut. I found additional sharpness gained by honing with the CroOx balsa hone.
I test shaved before and after the CroOx and it wouldn't cut before and after it was BBS with ease. I was shocked!