Thread: Essential number of hones

For my experiences you can feel the apropriate stone for.your razor with TPT. But starting out I bought the King 220-1k grit for.less than 40 bucks and the norton 4k-8k and then chromium oxide on a bench strop then pasted and finally reg strop. But starting out your biggest challenge will most likely be the actual holding of your razor and not using any pressure keeping the razor flat on the stone ( hardest part 4 me was at the end of each.single stroke I would catch myself lifting heel side of blade). If I could give u 2 good pieces of advice though they would be use the.sharpie trick for bevel setting, and watch the water in front of your razor. Both are explained and shown on youtube. Also in ending I have recently purchased naniwa super stone 1k and 12k from SRD. I highly recommend buying from them cheapest pruces I could find. Oh yes annother super important part of honing is LAPPING YOUR HONES. use the method of drawing a grid on your hones. You will never get.a.atraight edge with dips, dishing, and humps in your hones.