Originally Posted by
Utopian
I am not putting myself in Lynn's echelon, but Jimmy let me borrow his Pros for a while and my findings with them matched what I later learned to be Lynn's findings. That is, on average, about 7 out of 10 razors were successfully honed on the first try with the Pros. Now in my case this could have been due to my inexperience with those hones, but Lynn surely honed more razors with them and ended up with the same result.
I really like the Shapton Pro hones though and bought a few of the lower grit hones.
On the GlassStones, the success rate is well over 9 out of 10. For that reason I eventually bought a complete set of the GlassStones, except for the 30k. They work very well.