What I've found practising on my two Gold Dollars over and over again was 75-80% of the time and work was on the bevel, I knew that intellectually from reading it here, but until I was doing it, the temptation (which I also read about here) to skip up the sequence was strong. I didn't move on from the 8k until I could shave my sideburn area...if it didn't shave well, took a break.
I did a pretty good job on the I.Barber razor, but when I finally got to the 12k and the Escher, it was a huge let down, ten minutes maybe combined on both stones...then I remembered a video Glen had of the Shapton 30k, a $500.00 or something stone...he did 3 laps on the stone, shrugged, and said, well, that's it, we're done here!!! :rofl2:
My honing practice now is going to be taking some of the other practice razors I have and just putting bevels on them and taking them to the 8k stage.