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Yes, I've played with that as well, but I prefer to keep it simple. If one razor was finished to 3um, then I added two layers of tape to finish at 1um and below, but another razor was honed with one...

It's the classic case of "putting too fine a point on it"...

I think the 1um strikes the balance between sharpening it up to a certain point, as well as "rounding off" the very edge just a touch...

I have tried going all the way to 0.1um finishes in the past, but have found that I prefer the shave coming off of 1um. The edge starts to look a bit wavy when I have tried for super high finishes, I...

That';s a good point, and the proper way to run an experiment.

I still say it is the alum oxide film itself, as I did a progression on the alumoxide film here, and you can see it all has that...

I much prefer the diamond film! It costs more, but may well be worth it if you obsesss about such things!

Same razor (Tornblom) first honed on a new sheet of 1um alum oxide lapping film 200x
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