Ok, don't shoot me (jet). First of all I want to state I have zero interest in either promoting or bashing the GD Razor
I've ordered a GD razor honed it up (first time I Honed a razor) and used it for several weeks.
Now what I did is put it under the microscope (100x magnification) and take some picture of the edge right after use (with stropping it).
I took the worse looking part of the edge to clearly show how bad/good it is.
This is the result.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6783/gdedge1.png
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/4517/gdedge2.png
The top of the picture shows the worst and most worn part of the blade and the bottom part shows the overall state of the razor after a shave.
Now I am no expert but that looks pretty fine to me, even at the most worn part of the blade where you can clearly see blemishes on the bevel the cutting edge is still straight and fine.
Now I can only conclude that that is a good thing and I was wondering what my fellow straight shavers think of these pictures and what we can conclude by studying them.
Gr. Skyer
P.S. To give you a more complete idea I've just looked at my 1932 magnetic (great shaver) and it show similar (even slightly worse) "scratches" on the bevel after a shave....