Thread: OPINIONS WANTED

It looks fine to me. The only time I used magnification is to check to see if the bevel is set in early stages-from toe to heel all the way throughout the edge. That's it.

That is an impressive picture from a $59 scope.
I would like to see some before and after shave pictures of the edge.

Silver2

Hi Paco - it looks plenty smooth to me!

Just being curious, but what make is the red paste you use? I only ask because the Dovo stuff is something like 3 - 5 microns (going by memory) compared to the half micron size of Chrome oxide, so in theory you would use the red first (or not at all in your progression).

There are very fine forms of ferric oxide (true jewelers rouge), but they are mostly used for polishing soft metals like gold. The darker purple/red rouge, bordering on black sometimes (I mean rouge in its proper sense - a ferric oxide compound) - is usually used to cut steel as it is quite hard, but the payoff is that it is quite coarse too.

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Silver2

That is an impressive picture from a $59 scope.
I would like to see some before and after shave pictures of the edge.

Silver2

Just shaved so i'll put some up in a couple days

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Hi Paco - it looks plenty smooth to me!

Just being curious, but what make is the red paste you use? I only ask because the Dovo stuff is something like 3 - 5 microns (going by memory) compared to the half micron size of Chrome oxide, so in theory you would use the red first (or not at all in your progression).

There are very fine forms of ferric oxide (true jewelers rouge), but they are mostly used for polishing soft metals like gold. The darker purple/red rouge, bordering on black sometimes (I mean rouge in its proper sense - a ferric oxide compound) - is usually used to cut steel as it is quite hard, but the payoff is that it is quite coarse too.

Regards,
Neil

It may be cerium oxide, i believe i purchased from someone advertising in the classifieds. It was being sold in a puck shape as was the CroX, about 1-1/2" diameter x 1" thick. If i remember correctly the guy was in Poland.

Originally Posted by Silver2

That is an impressive picture from a $59 scope.
I would like to see some before and after shave pictures of the edge.

Silver2

Here are the before and


After pics

Oh my! I can't believe it! Stropping tilted your blade!

The bevel looks just fine. The scratch pattern goes all the way to the edge and is a uniform pattern for the length of the bevel that we can see. That's what to look for.

I use a 30X handheld microscope and it tells me everything I need to know. It is most useful at the beginning of a honing session.

Please get some quality 0.5 micron chrome ox powder or liquid and dump that red stuff. The red stuff is taking you backwards and the green puck is probably much larger than 0.5 micron chrome ox. Dump that also.

Your doing just fine,

I'm curious - what is it that you all gain from looking at the edge under magnification, that you can't get from a combination of eyeballing and edge-testing (either on hair or TPT)?

Ron , Randy, those last two pics were a before and after a SHAVE. Silver2 wanted to see difference in edge. As you can see there is a distortion after the shave by the deflected light.