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Yes, apologies are due for the hijack. Sorry, Scott.

You guys mention making passes from both sides of the stone, is that to dislodge some of the metal that may be caught against some of the grit,...

I do like your list for the breaking points as they pertain to razors, the labels could be changed for personal preference.



The average dimension is decreasing, but there is a nonlinear edge...

We can break down the terminology into subsets with different labels (polishing, honing, refining, finishing, etc.), but the underlying goals are:

1) Form an edge
2) Make that edge usable for...

This discussion could really use it's own thread, but it seems there are only three of us really interested in it ATM so...

The edge width figures from the Verhoeven document were measured as a...

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We generally refer to the higher grits (1k and up) as polishing grits because the actual edge width doesn't get significantly finer after that.

I've recently been thinking that this kind of...