Greg this is one of the great ones! You’re spot on with the magnification and loupe comment. Sometimes with my microbrite the edge looks perfect at 100x only to find small little chips in my bigger microscope… how much of a change this does to the actual shave I’m not sure yet. Awesome jnat and like always very relaxing and informative… I feel like an apprentice when I watch your videos so thank you for sharing and teaching us in the community
Thank you Sean. Generally, you won't feel small chips that aren't jagged. I have definitely adjusted my technique to get clean edges repeatedly at 1000x, but the real-world improvement of a clean edge at 1000x over a clean edge at 100x is actually very small.
Beautiful ERN 😍 well worth your skilled restoration, brutal 😂edge killing . But definitely necessary. I've two to hone this morning, had to diamond plate the frown out of one , now that's a really dead edge . I'm doing synthetic progressions as I don't speak jnat 😅.
Thanks Martin! I really like my Jnats, and I have spent a lot of money on them (most of my stones are for knife sharpening), but synthetic stones are the most consistent and dependable for me.
Nice work. Nice commentary. Whenever I am bothered by changes in my test media, I pull a known shave device for a calibration. I don’t do it much any more, but in the beginning I always used a new Feather Artist Club Professional Super blade. If you encounter this same razor scenario again, and, since I am not graced with 1000x equipment, I would be very interested, if you can, to see those same areas of concern at lower magnification levels. My reasoning is that at some level of high magnification, there are faults that become hard to detect in shaving. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy the Holiday weekend
My solution for calibrating the denser peanut was to reach into my peanut jar, find a peanut with the density I'm more familiar with, then compare the two. Good idea to have a blade that can always be used as a reference, though. My _feel_ will vary day to day, I'm sure. As to the scope. It took me about 4 months to really learn how to interpret what I was seeing. A perfectly clean edge at 50x can look like a saw at 1000x. I have adjusted my technique to get consistently clean edges at 1000x, but no matter what, not all edges come out clean. It took a lot of time for me to figure out the difference between "perfect" and "good enough" at this magnification. Actually, a lot of faults are hard to detect while shaving; even some that are easy to see without a scope. If the fault is isolated and has a shape that isn't jagged, it typically won't bother you. Groupings almost always will. Thanks for the feedback! Enjoy the weekend!
@@greggallant5058 The “Peanut Jar” solution is excellent. Before I changed my diet to remedy diabetes, it did have to be cocktail peanuts (or pizza) and a cold beer. I actually do remember being young enough for one dose to lead to another until the “I could care less” human lubrication system override took over. 😎 Enjoy the weekend.
Nice video Greg, thank you. Would the correction of the chips and dinks be quicker to sort out on your synth? I find that you can do all that work quickly on a 1k by killing the edge repeatedly. Hone, kill, hone, kill... until the damage is no longer there in your scope and you have a fresh edge. Then go to your great looking ozuku to polish. Polishing the chips and holes seems labour intensive. Lovely looking razor too, I bet it gives a really smooth shave.
The edge was killed on a 1K at the start. A lot of material was removed in that effort. The kind of chipping I saw after the Mejiro you would probably not see at 1K refinement. In this video I'm sharpening based on the microscope and it has very high magnification. Chips that look large are only a few microns in size. That said, stones are just abrasives. There's more than one way to use them. If you have a process that works well for you, stay with it.
Is that razor stainless steel? I run into that problem with cheap stainless steel knives. Sharpen up the edge and at the last step the blade flakes out. Problem with homogeninity of ingredients in the steel making process. High carbon steel seems less susceptable to problems.
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Holy skill with sharpening and super informative!
Thank you!
great Ozuku info. Thanks for making this!
Sweet video Greg! Hope all is well and loved seeing the nagura progression
Greg this is one of the great ones! You’re spot on with the magnification and loupe comment. Sometimes with my microbrite the edge looks perfect at 100x only to find small little chips in my bigger microscope… how much of a change this does to the actual shave I’m not sure yet. Awesome jnat and like always very relaxing and informative… I feel like an apprentice when I watch your videos so thank you for sharing and teaching us in the community
Thank you Sean. Generally, you won't feel small chips that aren't jagged. I have definitely adjusted my technique to get clean edges repeatedly at 1000x, but the real-world improvement of a clean edge at 1000x over a clean edge at 100x is actually very small.
@@greggallant5058 Thank you Greg for giving away all of this knowledge! I’ll be waiting for the next one my friend
Beautiful ERN 😍 well worth your skilled restoration, brutal 😂edge killing . But definitely necessary. I've two to hone this morning, had to diamond plate the frown out of one , now that's a really dead edge . I'm doing synthetic progressions as I don't speak jnat 😅.
Thanks Martin! I really like my Jnats, and I have spent a lot of money on them (most of my stones are for knife sharpening), but synthetic stones are the most consistent and dependable for me.
Nice work. Nice commentary.
Whenever I am bothered by changes in my test media, I pull a known shave device for a calibration. I don’t do it much any more, but in the beginning I always used a new Feather Artist Club Professional Super blade.
If you encounter this same razor scenario again, and, since I am not graced with 1000x equipment, I would be very interested, if you can, to see those same areas of concern at lower magnification levels. My reasoning is that at some level of high magnification, there are faults that become hard to detect in shaving.
Thanks for sharing. Enjoy the Holiday weekend
My solution for calibrating the denser peanut was to reach into my peanut jar, find a peanut with the density I'm more familiar with, then compare the two. Good idea to have a blade that can always be used as a reference, though. My _feel_ will vary day to day, I'm sure.
As to the scope. It took me about 4 months to really learn how to interpret what I was seeing. A perfectly clean edge at 50x can look like a saw at 1000x. I have adjusted my technique to get consistently clean edges at 1000x, but no matter what, not all edges come out clean. It took a lot of time for me to figure out the difference between "perfect" and "good enough" at this magnification.
Actually, a lot of faults are hard to detect while shaving; even some that are easy to see without a scope. If the fault is isolated and has a shape that isn't jagged, it typically won't bother you. Groupings almost always will.
Thanks for the feedback! Enjoy the weekend!
@@greggallant5058
The “Peanut Jar” solution is excellent. Before I changed my diet to remedy diabetes, it did have to be cocktail peanuts (or pizza) and a cold beer. I actually do remember being young enough for one dose to lead to another until the “I could care less” human lubrication system override took over. 😎
Enjoy the weekend.
@@billm.2677 I'm fortunate that I can still do pizza and beer night - that's one beer and a couple of slices - once a month, or so :)
Nice video Greg, thank you. Would the correction of the chips and dinks be quicker to sort out on your synth?
I find that you can do all that work quickly on a 1k by killing the edge repeatedly. Hone, kill, hone, kill... until the damage is no longer there in your scope and you have a fresh edge. Then go to your great looking ozuku to polish. Polishing the chips and holes seems labour intensive. Lovely looking razor too, I bet it gives a really smooth shave.
The edge was killed on a 1K at the start. A lot of material was removed in that effort. The kind of chipping I saw after the Mejiro you would probably not see at 1K refinement. In this video I'm sharpening based on the microscope and it has very high magnification. Chips that look large are only a few microns in size.
That said, stones are just abrasives. There's more than one way to use them. If you have a process that works well for you, stay with it.
Is that razor stainless steel? I run into that problem with cheap stainless steel knives. Sharpen up the edge and at the last step the blade flakes out. Problem with homogeninity of ingredients in the steel making process.
High carbon steel seems less susceptable to problems.
The Ern razor is carbon. And, yes, cheap stainless kitchen knives often are tempered so poorly they won't take much of an edge.