I had a discussion about this on another forum and i thought it might be useful here... i think people misunderstand microbevels (and also have no clue what thin behind the edge actually looks like with regard to thinning)...
microbevels are intended to achieve the following things (not necessarily all of them, but at least one, if not a combination of a couple or more):
-maintaining extremely thin geometry on a knife that could not otherwise handle it -reduce chipping in super hard steels -increase stability in larger carbide steels (especially at low sharpening angles) -improve edge retention at the cost of maximum potential sharpness
Here is an example of very thin behind the edge:
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