Well, good news! I pretty much followed all of the advise that everyone gave me and just put everything together the way I thought it should go. I used a slightly worn 1000 grit 3m paper to set the bevel then I went to my 8K with some slurr on it for 15 strokes. I then went back to the 1K for about 10 strokes. By the way I had one layer of scotch tape on the spine while doing all of this. I did about 30 strokes on the 8K again with the slurry and then I can't tell you how many strokes I did after that with the 8K with no slurry and often cleaned the the stone. I went to the strop for a count of 30 on the cloth with white Dovo paste and again to the stone with very little water almost dry and a light touch for 30 more strokes! Man my razor works like a charm! I chaved my face and both my arms! I can't tell you how good it felt to have my blade back and better than it was when I first used it with the factory edge.