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Light manipulation methods can be vey revealing. Like night and day!

Great edge reveal, now you can get down to the nitty gritty. Lol!

Getting those shots is not as easy as it seems. Great job!
 
Did a little more experimentation with the DIC. Now I can see the scratches in the Feather blade. And check out this image of that damaged spot now! :thumbsup:

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At 300x this is what I see after bevel setting on a 1000 grit King or a 500 grit Shapton or from a 1200 Atoma. Straight full from edge to base of bevel striations and a ragged edge of folded steel representing the edge of the razor. It does not matter which steel from what stone although some stones work faster with some steels, the diamond plate does not distinguish and always works fast.
In the top photo (side A of blade) is the portion of the steel folded towards the camera, the second photo (side B of blade) is it folded away from the camera. These bevel set stones leave a dramatic landscape of scratches, while the finishing stones leave a more refined, narrower scratch pattern. The bottom photo using the same lens and lighting is an adult female head hair approximately 100 microns in diameter. These photos will give you an idea the job the razor is asked to do. The edge as it sits now will not cut hair HHT-5 but it might catch hair HHT-2 except for that folded over section, an appendage that is not at all rare.
 

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BTW @alx gilmore, I think you are much closer to 1,000x equivalent magnification than 315x in your images, judging by that hair. If it's ~ the average 100μ you only have about a 200μ field of view there.
 
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This Especial was listed a shave ready, and it was shave ready.

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I can't say it didn't shave well.
It was HHT 3.

It looked to me to have very small conchoidal chipping on the side of the edge.
I thought it was sharp enough to benefit from 0.1 micron balsa,
and it was.
Then I recalled somebody on this forum mentioning that crox
crystals were more spherical than either diamond or alox
and that they might be better for polishing.
I also recalled seeing some sharpologist images like that.
So I put the razor on 0.3 micron balsa.
The hair was hanging out 2 inches from where I held it
and I cut it an inch out from where I held it.

Even as HHT 5's go, this one inspired me to take a picture.
I shave with the razor tomorrow.

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I think the hanging hair picture looks better than the blade picture.

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This Especial was listed a shave ready, and it was shave ready.

View attachment 1549997

I can't say it didn't shave well.
It was HHT 3.

It looked to me to have very small conchoidal chipping on the side of the edge.
I thought it was sharp enough to benefit from 0.1 micron balsa,
and it was.
Then I recalled somebody on this forum mentioning that crox
crystals were more spherical than either diamond or alox
and that they might be better for polishing.
I also recalled seeing some sharpologist images like that.
So I put the razor on 0.3 micron balsa.
The hair was hanging out 2 inches from where I held it
and I cut it an inch out from where I held it.

Even as HHT 5's go, this one inspired me to take a picture.
I shave with the razor tomorrow.

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I think the hanging hair picture looks better than the blade picture.

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I don't think I was clear about this.
It was
0.1 micron diamond balsa,
followed by 0.3 micron crox balsa.
 

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Girls call me Makaluod
Here is what I have to shave with tomorrow, a Titan ACRO T.H.70 maintained on diamond pasted balsa. Photo taken with an AliExpress US$15 USB microscope. @Slash McCoy has trouble honing this stainless steel.

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I expect that there is some striation there from the 0.1μm diamond paste but I can't see it.
 
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Top: Dovo 'Best Quality' after 1K Suehiro
Bottom: after 12K Naniwa SS
Both my honing and micro-photography need some improvement!
Images at circa x270 on this fairly inexpensive scope:
AUD$129 (about US$80)
 
This Especial was listed a shave ready, and it was shave ready.

View attachment 1549997

I can't say it didn't shave well.
It was HHT 3.

It looked to me to have very small conchoidal chipping on the side of the edge.
I thought it was sharp enough to benefit from 0.1 micron balsa,
and it was.
Then I recalled somebody on this forum mentioning that crox
crystals were more spherical than either diamond or alox
and that they might be better for polishing.
I also recalled seeing some sharpologist images like that.
So I put the razor on 0.3 micron balsa.
The hair was hanging out 2 inches from where I held it
and I cut it an inch out from where I held it.

Even as HHT 5's go, this one inspired me to take a picture.
I shave with the razor tomorrow.

View attachment 1550003

I think the hanging hair picture looks better than the blade picture.

View attachment 1550005

Nice!

What camera/software combination gives these kind of image results?
 
I had read that hairs are hollow,
but now I've seen with my own eyes,
with the aid of artificial lenses and electronics and computers.

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