Originally Posted by
Disburden
Here's a little story:
I started wet shaving in 2008. I joined the shaving forums and SRP. Since then I bought every stone you can think of, 50+ Coticules, 4 Eschers, DMTs, Naniwas, Nortons, Japanese Stones up the wazzoo, Shapton Glass stones, Pastes, etc etc,.
I must have spent over $3000.00 no joke. In the end that tiny little margin of polish really wasn't worth all that money. So I sold a lot of stuff, bought some back again, etc etc.
I now shave off my Norton 8K most of the time, and I use coticules a lot because I like playing with them however they vary a lot in how fine they can be.
There are a lot of tools to get to a nice polished razor. Pastes are easy cheap and effective, stones are more expensive. Both are fun.
Do the best you can on the 8K first, it's most of the battle.