Thread: Am I the only one who doesn't want to hone myself?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Having a sit-down with a knowledgeable person would help a lot using YOUR stones, IMO.

Honing is rather easy to learn, given the skill set, on synthetics with the right instruction. If you wing it and listen to everyone, notsomuch.
Staying the path and not veering toward naturals (as some will suggest) will keep a base of knowledge growing.

Always time for the other things later after you learn to get good results on some more standardized synthetics, I suppose.
JMO

I found some nortons that I might buy, and I found lynn's "honing with nortons" youtube video. I don't think there are any baltimore SRPers that are active around,(I did use the "find members in your area" thread instructions) but one added question about the nortons I've been drooling over, they only go up to 8k I keep hearing about 12k or 24k etc. do I need these or will an 8k get me shave ready?

You can get a very nice shave from an 8K edge. I recently read a thread where a very experienced honer has gone back to 8K and all but abandoned most of his naturals and high grit synthetics. An 8K edge done well is a beautiful thing. For the longest time I went to 8K and then a natural. I have only very recently started playing with the higher grit synthetics.

Search the JaNorton thread, couldn't post the link