If you'd ever like to taste an Asagi edge or y/g thuringian, or the popular gokumyo synth edge just pick up actual postage - honing's on me. Today was a Torrey 1/2 hollow I'm still tweaking the edge on. What Duck? Satinedge? (extra hollow - .0075" thick) Goldenedge (.010 thick) I have one Genco Red Cross, used for surgical prep that's .006" thick. You can lay the pad of a finger on the back face & run your fingernail over the front face. You'll feel the fingernail through the blade. .006 is the thickness of 2 avg. human hairs. Don't ask me how they kept it from warping while grinding it.
Hm, thanks much for the offer! I need to figure out a new strop system to make sure I can maintain it properly before taking you up on that. My current is one of the base models and was nicked up before I ever started learning on it, so it's due for a replacement.
The Duck is a Satinwedge, with lots of unevenly hone wear on the tip or maybe damaged at the tip and they honed past the damage before it came to me so it is pretty stiff/wedgey for the most part.
That Genco sounds amazing but too sharp? Is there such a thing?
Rest of my setup: WM Elliot hollow that I picked up for polishing/honing practice as it is extremely pitted. A Henckels that has been a slow resto project (rust removal/polishing mainly) and the aforementioned hollow is a Marcella by Theo A Koch. Wagner Reliance barber's hone.