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Agreed. I think we came as far as possible in rounding up a good status questionis on this topic. It's unlikely to find any published experiments that offer direct insight on steel behavior to...

I'm certainly not disputing that.


Verhoeven only photographed one razor, owned, honed and stropped by one Mr. William Dauksch that had "several decades" straight razor experience. He compared...

The Modern Mechanics method of optical magnification might very well have lacked optical resolution to show any teeth. Verhoeven's scanning electron microscope is capable of much better resolution...

That, sir, is a mighty fine post.

In answer to your final question, I think that heat though friction can be very significant on an microscopically shallow surface level, while it dissipates too...

You really should all read the following document.
http://webpages.dcu.ie/~stokesjt/ThermalSpraying/Book/Chapter1.pdf

It explains how the surface of hardened steel consists out of different...

If you want to argue, please use real arguments instead of circular reasoning, authority arguments and arguments that exchange correlation for causation. I'm not here for the sports of discussion....

abrasion: removal of material by friction with another.
friction: a force applied from rubbing one material against another.
significant: with effective relevance

That said:
Friction is a...

Hi, Kees,
I was talking about benchstrops for honing chisels and such, in response to Stickiy's post about sharpening tools for woodcarving. Most sources advocate dressing the strop with some kind...

All sources I ever read, including your link, always advice to dress the leather with an abrasive compound.
But strictly spoken, everything on this planet has some abrasive qualities even a cucumber...

Here's the man:
John Verhoeven

and his reputation.:)

Could you point me to the phrases where Verhoeven talks about stropping on felt (other than on felt wheels loaded with abrasive compound), and to the parts where he compares felt to leather loaded...

Best regards,
Bart.