Quote Originally Posted by epd View Post
Buy a norton 4/8 stone (its all you need for now) and a beater razor.
Send your dovo and beater out for professional honing.
When beater becomes dull, touch it up with the norton, using the dovo for reference.
Any other route may cause you years of grief, a bunch of nonsense honing posts and perhaps a bad elbow/shoulder from stroking it.

Good luck and welcome to the forum!

Eric.
Umm. If I read his post he already has a 3k and and 8k stone.

To the OP. Honing takes a alot of practice, as I am beginning to understand. In all honesty send your shaving razors to a professional honer, then go get yourself some inexpensive razors and use them to practice on. This way if you frown your blades or ruin the spine you havent lost a nice shaving razor. The appeal of doing it yourself is great in this hobby but if you have nice shaving razors why risk them.