Quote Originally Posted by honedright View Post
If my razor edge looked just like the ones in the current photos, I would happily concede that there is somthing else going on.
The problem is that it has been shown that leather doesn't abrade the steel to any significant degree (even on the microscopic scale), the only thing that stropping does is "push" the irregularities along the edge back into a line. So while it would be very informative for all of us to have an electron microscope at our disposal, there is unlikely to be anything astoundingly different from what is in the Verhoeven study.

I mean, if there's no abrasion going on, then the edge can only be aligned so much before there is nothing left to fix about it and any method is as good as any other and there is some other cause of your edges lasting so much longer.