Ok guys I need help with this razor. I can't figure out what is going on. I have tried several things with this razor and get the same results. What makes it even more frustrating for me is that i have three razors that I have honed that are working well. This one and a few others not so much.

I am not the world's best photographer but I did the best I could here. These were taken through my engraving microscope at 20X. I dont' know how much the camera enlarged it but these pics have to be at least 40-50X. maybe more.

I'm going to walk through what I did with pics and see if you guys can figure out where things are going south.

This first pic is with the 4000 norton waterstone where I started.
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This second pic is the 8000 norton. Now weird things were happening here. I keep feeling like mystery grit is magically appearing on the stone surface. I would wash it off and it would come back. I even re-lapped the face of the stone and it came back. It was almost as if little pieces were crumbling off the edge of the razor or off the stone and floating around on the surface. You can even see little scratches in the bevel from this.
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This third pic is of the finish stone. This time I used my "ultra fine" spyderco ceramic (the finest one they make in the black box). At this point the edge looks pretty clean to me. It has even cleaned up the scratches form the stray mystery grit from the norton 8000
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Next we have 80- strokes on the strop. I am using a "Tiger Brand" Illinois #976 with no compounds of any kind. Leather side only.
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So now I try and shave with it. My right cheek and even my right neck are fine but by time I get to my left side it acts as if the edge has fallen apart. You can see in this last pic that the very edge is actually rippled.
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I have also tried a Chinese water stone and also my translucent hard Arkansas as a finishing stone and I get the same result with this razor. I have tried a leather bench lap with semicrhome and I get the same result. I have tried a leather bench lap with 50K diamond spray and the same result. I get a little shinier edge and bevel with the leather laps but the edge fails the exact same way.

As I said the really frustrating thing for me is that I have a few razors (henkels, keen kutter, robeson suredge) that I treat the same way and get much much better results from.

Any idea guys?

Ray