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I don't think So uses them on razors, only on chisels, and I think that's traditionally who he sold them to (you notice all his tests are done with chisels), and where he's basing his statements on...

I remember talking to So awhile after I had gotten mine, and he mentioned the recent surge of guys over here buying them for razors and how surprised he was that we were having as much success with...

I don't know for certain what size the nakayama particles are before being released and broken down. I've read on this forum back when Ivo showed up with his Kiita that they are roughly 1-2 micron...

Oh ah, the topic. Yes, I like the edges I get from my Nakayama.

I thought they looked familiar. Those seem to come up every year or so. The photos are labeled as 25x, which is what I based my comment above on. Also, I notice that the website those came from...

Or the way the rice paper breaks down with use...

Sure. I have a couple of microscopes as well. And I see similar sorts of scratches, depending on the angle of the light. But what I'm seeing are *not* the scratches from the shapton 30k - they're...

That's what half-micron scratches look like at 25x? Color me incredulous.

Verhoeven's paper has photos taken with an electron microscope, of blades honed on a variety of substances, including an...

I don't read them either, actually.

I must be missing something. What's the joke?

I buy mine from the local coin-op newspaper box. Houston Chronicle. The classified or some page with lots of b/w photos works best.

eh. Not like this is the first thread in the history of SRP to suffer topic drift.

Part of the reason for my ambivalence between the Nakayama and the alternatives is that if I really want to get a really superb edge I'll finish with newspaper. But at that point the choice of...

I've got a Maruka Nakayama Asagi and like the edges off of it, but don't think it is magical or anything - they're comparable to the S30k edges in my estimation, and a bit better than a good coticule...