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Is genco and ontario cutlery all coming out of the same place? I have a couple of ontario cutlery razors and I like them a lot. They do seem to respond a lot better to synthetic abrasives, though,...

I hope they turn out well, if they do they should be superior razors. I love white #1 and white #2.

Presume on the O1 because you can harden and temper them very accurately without vacuum heat treatment or stainless steel wraps, etc. It's also easy to hone compared to higher alloy steels, and tends...

White #1 and White #2 are excellent, even Blue #1 and #2 would be great.

Pre 1900 razors, what were they made of? On the list of carbon steels, they were one notch above file steel as the best...

Go for it. I've not seen a lot of information about the alloys used on the first razors that got away from plainer carbon steels. We know a lot about the diemaking steels now (A2, O1, D2, and...

(i still would like to see actual SEM pictures of the *edge* of the razor, and not the bevel - before and after stropping. Are there any of those?)

The term mis-honed seems much more appropriate. I am having trouble finding a historical discussion of overhoning, other than for a description of some older fine natural stones to be immune from...

Are we talking about optical pictures? I don't think optical pictures will do the trick, there isn't enough resolution to see what's going on at the edge.

It's an easier test to just take two...

It is, to me, a term that is used to describe finishing with a sub-finishing stone, where the intention is to stop just short of removing the edge of the razor.

I don't know anyone who actually...

The critical issue with edge holding is angle and not polish. If a steel isn't hard enough for a very acute bevel angle, the edge will fail. But higher polish actually makes it more durable, the edge...