Originally Posted by
pinklather
The man's doctor told him he has too much money and not enough frustration...
JG - unless your experience on the stones vastly exceeds the experience of your 'join date', your AD's will do nothing for your edges. Its a state where your enthusiam (a good thing) obscures/overwhelms your objective - skill on stones, better shaving edges.
Growing the rock garden when new - lets you have exposure to lots of rocks (wonderful experience) but competency on few or none of them.
Its usually the case that nothing anyone can say will change that. You sorta have to come to that conclusion on your own.
If I could toss in a thought to the cauldron of excitement, it would be that there's no rock that will get you further down the road (especially not naturals) than honing a couple hundred more blades.
For now, enjoy the excitement. When the fog clears, you have some rocks to play with and the knowledge that its not the rock, its the rockhound.