Quote Originally Posted by AFDavis11
Your welcome, sorry if I confused you . . . unfortunately this is a process better done by reverse engineering. Hone until you have a perfect razor, then conduct every sharpness test on the planet to get a feel for what your looking for when honing. Another reason to get an edge honed by someone else I guess.

This is very true. My honing took a huge leap forward when I got a blade honed by Joe Chandler and spent a while finding tests that his would pass and mine wouldn't. Armed with that knowledge I was able to quickly adjust my honing technique to pass those tests, and eventually got to the point where I could read the feel of the blade on the hone well enough that i don't really use the hair-popping test much at all anymore (the shapton 15k and translucent arkansas hones are particularly communicative during honing).