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The spine says 009 RD, so these should be carbon steel
There's no depth information in these pictures, so hills and valleys often look like cracks. Those edges are actually places where the thickness or depth of coating changes. You can follow two sets of "cracks" like that along the entire blade length, both containing areas roughly the same size, but thes second one is harder to see. It's actually the thickness of the coating becoming thinner or disappearing near the edge, and it tapers off kind of splotchetty. Scroll back up to the personnas and you'll get the idea. I think it came out better there because of the polarizers, but polarizers show something different that doesn't always show the shadows like they do in the personna picture--it might be showing the angle which isn't quite the same as depth.Great pictures Steve. This one looks like its cracked.
Man....
Does anyone wonder wherre the chipped metal went? It would be rough to have a face full of microscopic metal!
.....Going through 2 different used feather blades, with about 4-6 passes each, it was hard to find any damage to the actual edge. Damage to the coating is an order of magnitute more prevelant, and the damage tends to be considerably larger than most edge damage I've seen. See the earlier pictures in this thread......
Awesome!!!Thank you for the pictures. I joined the forum just to say so!
Tim
Thank you for the pictures. I joined the forum just to say so!
Tim