Originally Posted by
shooter74743
Your Harts can handle a 30K, but your shave will not be from a "smooth" blade, but from a very sharp/crisp feeling blade. My routine is the same as DoubleO's: Shapton GS's to 16K then to Escher or Zulu Grey. Yes, it's going backwards a little in "grit" so to say, but at those levels it's all about custom tuning a blade to what you like. I keep my 16K in the bathroom for my "barber stone" & touch up on the fly. Once you learn your stones, you will know what each razor needs. I recommend leaving all powders & pastes alone until you obtain the edges you need from the stones.