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The best purpose for all this is understanding the cutting characteristics of the blade and developing a better understanding in where you should be starting your progression up the grit ladder. ...

Thanx for that link too, Robert. I got one on its way!

Yea, its an aggressive cutter but for everyday use I think it needs to get tamed with some smoothing. Eventually you end up at nearly the same spot everyone else does . . . but with a much better...

Pretty cool huh? Makes you really re-evaluate your thoughts on the best ratio between the two factors. You should see what that edge can do to a 10 day growth. High cutting ability and then...

I think you'll find the cutting abilities striking. The whiskers will be mowed down. But I think you'll find the blade may be a touch too "intense". You'll feel a little more irritation than...

Never been tried...didn't even bother thinking about it much. Just trying to get others to think about it. I can't even convince most people that a less sharp (and more striated) razor works. I...

I'm the same, unfortunately I don't need any empirical evidence. I can actually feel a sharp unstriated blade desperately trying to "break" the whisker verses a striated blade cutting effortlessly. ...

My limit is where the razor starts shaving badly, sorry I'm a simple kinda guy.

X,

Try a complex series without the 4K. Lather up the 8k and another hone and mix up the grit passes equally. Like 5/5, 3/3, 2/2, etc. I use about a 6k and 10K mix and get nice results. 4K...

With the exception of patience . . . that has always worked well for me with honing.

the links came up eventually, they take a while to load though...reading them might take a while though...

Nenad,

I don't see anything in the links, but I'm looking forward to finally knowing what I'm talking about...

I hope nothing I said leads anyone to think I need 4k teeth to shave. Thats not the case. I don't need .25, or .5 or even 1k either. But I think I may need teeth. And I like shaving with a razor...

Vlad, thank god! Its an amazing shave isn't it? I started a new thread on this. The razor IS dull, but it shaves great...neat huh?

Emil, I'm pretty new too, someday I hope to be able to...

Jeff,

No lynch mob starting up over at your house. I'll tell you the little I understand about the process just to finish out. I find the Norton 4k/8k won't do the job. 4K is too rough and 8K...

Yes, I agree. I am only referring to honing a dull razor. . .thank you

JL- I don't think any of us follow the pyramid blindly, most I think use whatever technique we use to judge blade sharpness and then determine when to stop using the pyramid and start focusing on...

Glad you have the correct perspective. If this were simply honing knives or cutlery your perspective would be accurate. Without sitting around and typing my fingers dry describing the effects of...