Holy Jeezus I got a +63 answer on English Language for utter low hanging fruit. People will just not stop upvoting that totally mediocre answer.

Why does that never happen on EE?

It does, proportionally often

@ThePhoton It happens once in a while when a question goes HNQ.

@PlasmaHH Sharpen a straightrazor with them, then shave. If you're bleeding hard, its less than 4000

@ThePhoton . . You are up to 88 on the English answer :)

@ThePhoton It does. Got over 100 votes for an answer to a stupid question. Posted an answer mostly intended as a joke, and it went through the roof.

@ScottSeidman sounds very accurate

@JRE Rep capped 3 days running on English. Silly.

@PlasmaHH It's a false projection --- even with a 4000, it's damn hard to sharpen those things correctly, and 4000 isn't really fine enough. I have a 4000/8000 Norton Waterstone, and even then, it's difficult.

@ScottSeidman for finishing razors I have a leather belt

And since with none of these stones I get a shiny finish, that should give an upper limit

Of well, maybe 6000 or so? I don't really know

@PlasmaHH A strop is more of a conditioner than a sharpener. I suppose "finishing" is accurate. I have a a canvas strop and a leather strop, for right before I shave, and a diamond dust treated piece of leather mounted on a block of balsa for quick touch ups.

Lately, though, I go w/ a disposable blade straight from Feather. Good stuff, and I don't have to set aside time to sharpen.

@PlasmaHH Can you see the scratch pattern on the blade with a high-power loupe or microscope?

@ScottSeidman haven't tried yet, not much of them around in the workshop ^^

@PlasmaHH I keep a USB scope around for inspecting PCBs!

@ScottSeidman up in the lab I have a microscope, just when grinding down there you don't regularly walk up and check

A good engineer would be fabricating one out of an ice cube ;-)

@PlasmaHH An then a bad engineer would post a question on EESE about how to plug an ice cube into a USB port.

No ice around :P