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Science is my hobby, Puff.:D
and regarding straight razors, my hobby is my science...

Weird. My wife says exactly the same...:thinking:;)

Tpoof, if you didn't intend to hurt me, I shall not feel that way. :)

I am more than aware that you don't need to know anything about this stuff, in order to put a great edge on a razor. You don't...

Huh?
Have I made a joke? Written something with a double meaning, that I'm not catching myself?
Or are you just laughing in my face, in utter disagreement?
I wonder.

Bart.

This is like saying "cars cannot fly, therefor cars do not exist". I agree that a fin has not the last part of a Y-shaped edge. That doesn't mean there's no such thing as a fin.

A bur forms also...

When we're trying to understand the true nature of things, semantics are very important. If we don't agree about terminology, how can we have a meaningful conversation? On the individual level, where...

That's the correct answer to the question whether an edge has some form of microscopical sawteeth. The absence of those serrations is counterintuitive, because based upon the notion that honing is...

My point exactly, Steve. Near the apex of the edge, there's a ratio between "original" steel and "bur-like" steel. That ratio has to be influenced by the quality of the razor, but also by the method...

The Germans use the term "Grat", dict.cc Wörterbuch :: Grat :: Englisch-Deutsch-Übersetzung
Here's a quote from the German Nassrazur site that is about the same as my personal opinion on the matter:...

This is exactly the kind of tone that makes an intelligent discussion about the physics of sharpening and cutting nearly impossible.
If you look at the edge under magnification, you can actually see...

No, I'm not defending the Y-hypothesis. I think the very edge (why not call that part "fin"?:)) is always convexed. But it's so thin that it bends and looses alignment from use.

Sure, I'm not...

I didn't vote. The existence of the undefined term "fin" cannot be trued or falsified by an election.

There are empirical facts:
Fact 1.
I have been honing exclusively with hones for quite some...