Aloha!

Merci. Oui, je comprends. I lived in France for two years and used to be fluent. Not so much these days. Personne ne parle Francais a Hawai.

You should do a Youtube video on your method of using handhelds from bevel set to finish stone. I'd watch it multiple times. Since jumping into honing I've tried to be a student of the craft. I have watched hundreds of hours of Youtube (well it seems that many anyway) and I have read all posts related to honing including everything I can find in the library. I may have missed some but all the fairly recent ones have been read. But doing everything via handheld stones (barber hones and smaller) is something I never thought of until your post.

I will say my little 12k Ocean Blue puts a formidable finish edge on my blades. And it's surprised me how easy it is (and natural) to work a blade on a handheld. Easier than I thought.

Mahalo!

-Zip