Originally Posted by
stove
BTW: I've also recently started learning to hone. Out of necessity due to dinging the blade, at first.
I've picked up several antiques and have gotten them all shaving at this point. I've always been a knife guy and blade maintenance just adds to the hobby aspect. I'm far from a honemeister but with a norton 4k/8k, Spyderco UF and TI paste I can get them in pretty good shape.
Funny thing is: newly honed or newly purchased, I notice the shave improves greatly after the first few. Anyone else experience this? Don't know if it is me dialing in with the razor or just a natural improvement from a few cycles of stropping and shaving.