and get them all to equal sharpness and smoothness.
This is a good challenge, I think. However, as vigilant as I am about creating consistently high quality edges, I find that it is really technique that’s required to get a great shave from different razors. With the sharpening process that I use, I can get edges on varying steels to perform almost identically in sharpness testing, and to look almost identical under high magnification. With this as a given I have found that I need to adapt my technique to get each razor type that I use to perform (for me) optimally.
That’s right. You need to account for the TWR(†), obviously 😅.
I just found another major flaw in the challenge. AA is summer vacation time and who’s going to pack their stone progression and straight den for the beach? This needs to be separate from AA, I think.
This is a good challenge, I think. However, as vigilant as I am about creating consistently high quality edges, I find that it is really technique that’s required to get a great shave from different razors. With the sharpening process that I use, I can get edges on varying steels to perform almost identically in sharpness testing, and to look almost identical under high magnification. With this as a given I have found that I need to adapt my technique to get each razor type that I use to perform (for me) optimally.
That’s right. You need to account for the TWR(†), obviously 😅.
I just found another major flaw in the challenge. AA is summer vacation time and who’s going to pack their stone progression and straight den for the beach? This needs to be separate from AA, I think.
(†) Thickness-to-width ratio
Especially in Europe ;-) Us Americans think that all Europeans take the full month of August off 🤣
We should! But sadly, we don’t 😩