Thread: What am I seeing under magnification?

I appreciate the pic, Oz. I'm not seeing that, so it doesn't appear to be a wire edge.

I've got it, my microscope is SO powerful, I'm seeing individual carbon molecules!

Goog

Possibly a "bubbly styrofoam" appearance is some corrosion that needs to be honed out. Just aim for a clean bevel but even a couple of microchips won't prevent a nice shave providing they are "micro"

Originally Posted by greatgoogamooga

I'm not that far into it. I'm still at the bevel setting stage right now. This blade is afraid of butter.

No frowns. If anything very slight smile.

Goog

Ahh, wish I had picked up on that first. could have saved me some typing.

For real, I see no smile only a clipped toe. If you set the edge vertically on the flat hone with some back light you may see what I am seeing or the photo is distorting the true shape.

When I find out blades to practicing honing on in junk shops, etc, I use a trick I learned from someone on this website. I take the razor and run it, without any pressure at all, on the bottom of a juice/ drinking glass. This insures that when you're going to start honing you're going to use newer steel. Bart from coticule.be does the same thing before he starts to hone his razors on his coticules. Any kind of bad corrided metal at the edge of the blade should be wiped out easier this way.

Originally Posted by Disburden

When I find out blades to practicing honing on in junk shops, etc, I use a trick I learned from someone on this website. I take the razor and run it, without any pressure at all, on the bottom of a juice/ drinking glass. This insures that when you're going to start honing you're going to use newer steel. Bart from coticule.be does the same thing before he starts to hone his razors on his coticules. Any kind of bad corrided metal at the edge of the blade should be wiped out easier this way.

Disturben I dont think it will speed the removal rusties. The glass will dull the edge completely along the length, so that when it returns we can be sure the new complete full length sharpness is all new

Originally Posted by kevint

Disturben I dont think it will speed the removal rusties. The glass will dull the edge completely along the length, so that when it returns we can be sure the new complete full length sharpness is all new

you may be right, I am not too sure on the subject. I know when Bart explained to me that he dulls on glass every time he hones he is doing it to ensure that he is beveling on "new steel" so the blade doesn't have burrs or imperfections at the very edge. I've used this method every time I have bought old razors in a shop and it works well.

I've never spoken to Bart directly about it, but my understanding from reading all the stuff he's written is that the edge removal is not to get to fresh steel, but to ensure that the edge you feel when testing is your new edge, and that you aren't making a new secondary bevel away from the edge.