Thread: Deepen my stropping technique, microscope photos

Good evening to all
It's been years when last time shaved with straights and even more when wrote anything in here (kept 3 years full beard..just wanted to study that grooming section too).
Earlier three years every day shaving with straights and learning a lot, but now decided to come back to learn more and having fun again, DE world is familiar too.

Read carefully articles from this site https://scienceofsharp.com/2016/04/1...-razor-honing/ ....so great site for information....and started to think about how to develop my stropping technique better. I am not sure are all these cheap microscope photos and writings beaten to death in here but just understood couple of things after reading and honing and stropping and clicking photos etc.

Razor is Edwin Jagger TI Le Grelot imitation 6/8. With other honing session I just stared only scratch patterns and took photos, shaved and result was bad. Well, not totally bad but far away from perfect. Then I started to think that I need to correct my honing/stropping somehow.

Science of sharp says "...It is also important to understand that scratches in the bevel are of no consequence when the bevel is micro-convex as the scratches do not reach the apex".

Here are photos of my study. Apex and scratch pattern change between 2k - 5k - 10k but stropping with cro-ox and TM red Latigo + horsehide will show how I tried to create a micro-convex and now I can hardly wait tomorrow morning and how apex and shave really feels. Hopefully smoother and learning still continues.
I wanted to took also different views of result if they help to show more.