Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
You can really feel the end of that stone as you hone, it is like when you start on that stone there is one feeling and once the previous scratches are gone there is a slicker feel... It really is pretty obvious...
I'll second this. The shaptons are great hones. They're readily available, cover the entire range of grits that we need, are very fast, consistent performers on pretty much every razor, and extremely communicative. When I first discovered them it was almost like cheating because they made it so easy.