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Okay, I see your point. I actually was looking at the edge, maybe I got a little side tracked with the stria. The edge looked pretty good to me from what I can see. It will certainly help to have...

Okay, points taken. I know I probably need to get better magnification at least for taking pictures. That handheld glass of mine with the smaller second lense magnifies up pretty darn close but it's...

Okay, a lot of water has passed under the bridge since this thread was active but perhaps we can consider that as times gone by with hopefully much learned since then. I spent some time honing...

I guess that wasn't really a complete answer. Normally how I finish is with the 4K/8K pyramid after setting the bevel and fixing the Apex. Then I usually take it straight to the leather. With most of...

Well I have a couple of barber homes. One of them is two-sided,... Well I guess they both have two sides but I mean one is different on one side then the other. Anyway I also have a 12K sharpton but...

Okay, so I haven't gotten a loupe to look at scratch patterns, striations etc but what I have been doing is continuing to try out the granite table top with the razors in my rotation. So far I have...

Ah grasshopper...
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I'm going to offend people here but...whatever. Aficionadosism is by in large very self indulgent and overly concerned with saying that one can discern the most miniscule of details which, even...

An additional thought here about perception and reality. Isn't that what this whole thing is about? How we perceive our shaving experience? Obviously it is about the reality of it too but what are we...

That's a very good point. What did people use before there even were jewelers loupes? People have been shaving for a long time before they even existed. Honestly I look for the shine on the edge when...

Thank you sir.

I'll have to get a loop. I've been thinking about getting one for a while. I'll do something more scientificamal after I get one and report back. Meanwhile I think I'll keep playing around with it.

That's a question I'd love to answer if I had a loop. Probably ought to get one but I always figured theproof is in the pudding with these sorts of things or in this case in the shaving

Well I can give at least a preliminary report back. I took a razor that had been honed with 4K/8K progression and had been used to the point where it needed some attention. It's one that I don't care...

I think I will Mike just so I can say I did. I'll let you know how it turns out.

...although I would imagine that carefully crafted obsidian could be made insanely sharp and it would likely not need much maintenance

Once again the voice of reason Marty. In another thread someone ask the question about who razors were made for which then brought to bear the matter of where they came from. The ancient Egyptians...

Moving right along... I think I'll stick with my synthetics. It's a more even matrix anyway. Just a thought. Not a debate.

This is most certainly true. However not all granite is the same. I'm from Atlanta originally. The granite there is a very uniform mix of quartz and mica. It's the stuff you see in everyone's...

I too have thought about using granite, not marble because I know marble is soft. You can scratch it fairly easily with a screwdriver, and yes I found that out the hard way. Granite comes in...