I recently acquired a Red Amakusa for an experiment; I'm trying to go from bevel setting to finish using natural hones only. So far I've spent roughly 4 hours trying to set the bevel on a W&B, best I've done so far is got the edge to catch hairs, barely cut them. The razor was shaving before I started, I did kill the edge first. I create my slurry using a 325 DMT and water down the slurry as I go. I've tried circles, half strokes and used all three of the methods shown on Coticule.be for Coticules and the edge will catch the hair but when I try to even things out with the straight and x stroke like Lynn and Glen use the edge falls off, makes no sense to me.
I'm not a beginner honer, been doing it for over 5 years but this has me stump. Any suggestions?