What am I seeing under magnification?
I'm working on a beater that I bought to learn on. It's an "Improved Eagle" that had some rust and pitting. All of that is gone and I'm on the 1k hone setting the bevel right now. I've gotten a couple of other razors shave ready and have started to figure out what the edge should look like. this one is showing me something I'm not sure about.
I can see a clear bevel, including a defined starting point where the blade goes from flat to angled (I'm sure there's a term for this). beyond this I can see the scratches made by the hone, angling to one side caused by the x-stroke. Beyond that I can see a bright line...I know this is a good thing. BUT..beyond the bright line is a rough gray area. Kind of hard to describe that...looks almost bubbly, like styrofoam.
Is the bubbly area a wire edge? Are those microchips? I assume not the latter, because they do not look serrated.
I'm also assuming (there's that word again) that all of this means more time on the 1k to get rid of them and to get to better metal. Oui? Non?
TIA
Goog