If you don't take Utopian up on his offer, I would like to make an offer to you:

Send me one of your blades you comfortably shave with, a quality blade. I will take it to the Shapton's & finish on Escher and send it back to you & you can decide.

Dave, we aren't bashing you at all...but if it were that easy we would all be using our power tools on our razors. I have a variable speed 2x72 belt "grinder" I made just for making razors as I can get it down to very slow. I still only use it for making razors & I use the slow speed with fine belts in the finishing of the razors to ensure the heat treatment isn't changed or damaged...which is usually what ends up happening when messing with super fine compounds. Many of us honers have done everything possible to ensure we can get a perfect edge, from observing the edges at high levels of magnification to investing a lot of dough in stones & of course honing a LOT of razors to learn the slight differences one razor may have over the other. If I could get the same level of edge off of my grinder, you bet your tail I would use the grinder...but it's not possible & even if it were it wouldn't be consistent. By this I mean if you knew how to shone on Shapton stones you could come to my house and use my stones just as you could yours & obtain the same results as you would at home. I am in the early stages of arthritis & have other issues with my hands, so honing all the time isn't necessarily easy for me...but I do it because I am very picky about my edges. Thank goodness a quality razor doesn't need honed all that often & when I do hone it's usually about a half dozen at a time...which reminds me that I need to sit down with the stones soon.