Jigane, you can read a lot and get lots of opinions, but if you want to hone razors get opinions from those that hone razors, they are the only ones that count. And as you see, everyone has preferences.

I read the knife forums, and they are interesting, but they don’t shave with knives, they just compare edges based on how they look and or slice tomatoes.

Perfect stones, and perfect progression, don’t exist… I and many of us have and still are looking…

Buy any recommended progression, and hone. Unless you are production honing, (a lot) the progression does not matter. All 1ks produce 1k stria and edge, some are faster, some softer, some need more water, some none. And to the shave it does not matter how a razor feels on a stone.

How you hone, technique, proper progression and a quality finisher are all that matters. Some razors seem to prefer some finishers, on some faces…

Read all you can then, Just do it… it’s not the stone…