Quote Originally Posted by Paysbas View Post
Hello thebigspendur,

your experience with honing the japanes razor is like mine. After honing with the soft arkansas hone it was possible to shave the hair of my forearm.
So I started with my blue belgian hone. I think I need a lot of patience but more and more surface looks polished. But a couple of peaces aren't polished.
How did I hone? 25 times at the convex side, 2 times at the concave side. So it doesn't disturb the symmetrie. Wenn it looks polished, then about 12 times each side with turning over the spine. I learned this from someone from the german forum.
So far my experience. I will go on. The steel takes a lot of my faith because of its hardness.

With kind regards, Paysbas
Your honing ratio's are off from the recommended ones however if you have to redo the bevel the normal ratios for general touchup and minimal honing are out the window. You have to hone until you get the result you need to get. As far as the uneven polished areas thats because with japanese razors the Convex side is in full contact with the hone at all times and any uneven honing will be really accentuated and/or the razor is not even and so it gets polished like that. Actually I have some foam polishing blocks I use for watch polishing which can be used to even the polish when your done if your looking for brushed or satin type polish finish.