Thread: Micro Bevels or "How to get your edge bloody sharp off an 8k"

That tells me that you never completely reset the bevel on your coarse stones before and were "finishing" the shoulders of the bevel instead of the actual edge. Microbevels aren't sharper. They're just a bit stronger and more durable.

Eventually with honing, pyramid processes and other methods, you'll get to a new bevel sooner or later. If you did it the hard way by spending a lot of time on finish hones before you actually had an edge to finish, whatever you did when you finally did get a new edge on the razor, which naturally results in a sharp edge, will seem like the silver bullet you've been looking for. If someone happens to drop cigar ashes on the hone the time they finally get a good edge, the chances are, they'll report that cigar ashes make the ideal slurry that works in ways nothing else has worked before.

The real silver bullet is setting a good, clean edge with a good clean bevel before frustrating yourself with finishing hones that don't seem to get your blade any sharper (because, of course, it's not getting sharper).