Originally Posted by
Double0757
No, is not your imagination! I also started with the Shapton glass 4,8 and 16k to learn how to hone razors. If you have the same stones (the glass), they are fast and that's the feed back they give, also they have a little suction that tells you that the edge is done in that stone (most of the times, but not always)
One thing oneholegruper said about the pressure on the blade is accurate, however, I would add that you want the pressure on the edge and not on the spine. You need to torque the blade toward the edge without lifting the spine to set the bevel. Once the bevel is set, I would use close to the same pressure as the blade, unless you have a section of the edge that is not pushing water as you go down the hone. Then I would use a little torque on that part of the edge or push (little pressure ) with the finger where is not pushing water, until I get even water push along the edge. Which tells me that the whole edge is getting touch by the stone.
Also try feeling the edge with your finger along the process, it will start teaching you how the edge is reacting to your honing in the stone. I do the TPT (thumb pad test) and cut hair at the root test. I also use sometimes the magnifier to see that I have set the bevel and to make sure that the edge is making even scratch pattern along the way with each stone. These test warrantee me that the edge is uniformly sharp at each step, before moving to the next stone. Hope this help Double O