Thanks Glenn (and others)-I continue to learn from your informative threads, and especially your videos: "at this point in time."

As a total honing newb, I have set exactly 2 str8 bevels on my new Norton 1k (several more kitchen and pocket knives), and both went fairly smoothly after some experimenting. The 4/8k pyramids worked quite well after that. Even before I started on razors, I have always found honing a blade to a wicked edge to be very satisfying.