Here's a Jsynth polishing hone finish on a razor.
Off the stone first.
Then following 60 passes on a newsprint "strop".
It does appear possible there is abrasion happening, even some slight bevel rounding perhaps... though hard to say without more testing. What is definitely happening is some level of functional stropping. My HHT is demanding enough that it can not be passed directly off a hone; it requires a stropped edge; the newsprint stropping got some very poor HHT results; but HHT results nonetheless. This effect is also visible in the images, the edge is slightly wavy and tilted towards the lens pre-stropping; and is straight and tilted slightly away from the lens after. It is accomplishing stropping; possibly not as fast or as thoroughly as a linen/leather strop; but SOME amount of stropping is happening on a free piece of newsprint I rolled up and pinned against the ground under my foot. When I find time I'm going to do some further testing with more familiar hones; and see exactly how newsprint compares when substituted for linen and leather, as well as seeing how it changes the character of some of my more commonly used finishes.
If you look closely at the image you can line them up... the prestrop image is a few dozen microns up the edge from the post-strop one, but using the more distinct scratches (the dark, wide scratch that splits into two finer ones near the edge, and the arc from wiping the blade) you can orient yourself.
Off the stone first.
Then following 60 passes on a newsprint "strop".
It does appear possible there is abrasion happening, even some slight bevel rounding perhaps... though hard to say without more testing. What is definitely happening is some level of functional stropping. My HHT is demanding enough that it can not be passed directly off a hone; it requires a stropped edge; the newsprint stropping got some very poor HHT results; but HHT results nonetheless. This effect is also visible in the images, the edge is slightly wavy and tilted towards the lens pre-stropping; and is straight and tilted slightly away from the lens after. It is accomplishing stropping; possibly not as fast or as thoroughly as a linen/leather strop; but SOME amount of stropping is happening on a free piece of newsprint I rolled up and pinned against the ground under my foot. When I find time I'm going to do some further testing with more familiar hones; and see exactly how newsprint compares when substituted for linen and leather, as well as seeing how it changes the character of some of my more commonly used finishes.
If you look closely at the image you can line them up... the prestrop image is a few dozen microns up the edge from the post-strop one, but using the more distinct scratches (the dark, wide scratch that splits into two finer ones near the edge, and the arc from wiping the blade) you can orient yourself.
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