Thread: First Honing Success

Awesome! I use the Norton as well and was eeally surpised at how long it takes with lapping them down to flat. I used a DMT 220 alternately under running water and it took about 15-20 minutes per side using figure 8s and decent pressure. When you lao your Norton remember to do the edges as well. I can't remember which video on the site it was but it was a video of a Meeting where they were doing a lapping demo and they mentioned lapping down the edges to further protect the razor during honing.

When you lao your Norton remember to do the edges as well.

Yes, I did do the edges. It really helps!

Great to hear..Nice accomplishment considering the slight speed bump along the way.

Man... I really want to learn to hone and prepare a stone like you did and stuff. I can't do it myself though... I need to see someone do it in front of me. Hoping for a Virginia meet up in the near future.

I found the SRP honing videos and lapping videos to be very helpful.

I'm new to SR honing too. I got my Norton 4K/8K and DMT 325 about 2 weeks ago. I already had 220/1000 and 1K/6K Japanese whetstones that I use to sharpen my kitchen knives, but honing a SR is a different experience. I used the DMT to lap all of the stones under running water. Man, I never realized how uneven my stones were--even the new Norton one.

I'm still practicing honing on a "training" SR. The only thing I missed was lapping the stone edges--I better go do that.