Quote Originally Posted by 10Pups View Post
I would ask you to try this. When you go up to the next grit do you feel the blade start to glide across the stone with less feedback ? In other words how long before it starts to feel smoother. Does it feel smooth all the way across the blade on the lap ? Start trying to feel it and you can forget counting. Now, I defer to sixgun's expertise, he has been honing a lot longer than I have.
Defer nutin brother that is exactly what I am trying to say also, we are preaching from the same book