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You can not polish an edge that… does not exist.

If you want better edges, get some magnification. A Carson, 60-100 Micro Brite is $10-15.

You cannot improve what you cannot see. Close your eyes and walk across the room! Then run across the...

Not thicker, wider look at the width of the spine from the top of the hollow grind to the top of the spine. Note the wonky grind.

Bottom line if the edge is not honing evenly from heel to toe,...

Heels need correction, The spine is not ground evenly near the stabilizer and is keeping the heel half of the razor from making full contact like the toe half of the razor. (Blue Arrow)

Moving the...

Take a look at Skorpio58’s thread on Jnat honing, (Learning Jnats with Microscope).

A relatively new honer transitioning to Jnats, he has documented his honing journey of different razors, base...

“I hear the slurry on the Jnat gets thinner with use, so I wondered if finishing on worked slurry would give better results, will have to try.”

It is very stone dependent. Also, different nagura...

Try adding a piece of copy paper under the film for your finish laps. The wet paper will flex enough to slightly convex the bevel and edge.

Just that little bit of convexing will make the edge...

It depends on the stone, especially with natural Coticules. Not all BBW are garden variety BBW, but much finer that the Coticule side. There is a lot of great info on the Blue stone if you search...

“Pachyderm”, love some sites where they post a pic and then say “Faux” Ivory, looks and feels just like real Ivory.

Now days, who knows, Google will do a word search with the feds and hunt you...

If you want to see some guys obsessive about honing look at videos from David Charlesworth and Deneb Puchalski. And those guys are honing tools.

But I bet they get repeatable results.

I don’t get overly obsessive about cleanliness, but I to try to keep my work area clean, a plastic food tray and steelex stone holder. I am fortunate, to have a large laundry sink and hot running...

First, photo 3 is of another part of the razor, so exclude it.

I am looking at stria present in all the photos. To the left of the crack (lower right to upper left). Now the crack could have...

That is not a good test razor because of the cracks and pitting.

Most likely the steel is not good and maybe why it cracked. So, most probably it will not hold an edge and invalidate any testing....

First, when doing edge correction, chip removal or edge reshaping it is not unusual for the edge to be ragged or flashed, (a light burr). You can joint, even on the finish stone and reset or strop on...

I agree, I have several old natural combo coticules that perform better on the Blue side than the coticule.

I also have several Purple/Blue stones and Vosigine that perform better than may...

There are BBW and there are BBW and then there are backers only.

Some blue stones are more towards the La Lune purple stone. Take a look at the (Re-Release of the French La Lune Stones) thread and...

The name does not matter that much but something searchable that is relevant to what you are trying to accomplish. Like, “Help with 1k bevel set to Jnat finish”.

Here is an old thread that we did...

So, a couple of tips for documenting with micrographs. Pick a spot and try to photograph the same spot, so you have something to compare to.

I pick a defect, like a edge chip or mark on the bevel...

I was thinking to use a Naniwa Super 3K after the 1K (instead of using the slate with water) do you think it could be useful?

Yes, the finer you get the bevel stria and edge straight the easier it...

Nice experiment and documentation.

Nice 1k stria, edge looks has a bit of flashing/burr. If you want to improve each stage try jointing the edge, 1 lite stroke then reset the edge with about 10...

And that, is learning how to read you stones.

Many ways to figure out what is happening between the stone and the edge other than hair test.

When honing thin hollow ground razors like your Henckels 401 Platinum do a test.

Tape the spine, and ink the bevels in colored ink, now on a high grit stone do a lap with lite pressure. Stop and...

So, keep in mind Alex Gilmore is an expert honer, with tons of experience on Jnats, this translates to a lot of technique that he does not think about and takes for granted as he automatically...

The razors that Alex is working on are probably not problem razors, they look to have decent edges already.

But with a diminishing lap count, (10.5,2,1), the process for checking for a fully set...

Skorpio, you edge looks good and straight, but if you remove all the deep stria the edge will be more improved, straighter and shave smoother.

Diamond slurry will quickly remove all the stria,...