Thread: Finally a good edge!

Hey guys, I'm back to straights after being lazy and using my feather all this time.. Anyway all my razors were dull so I had to jump on the hones. I don't have lots of experience with honing, and was getting sub-par edges. Here's how my honing went.

My two Dovo half hollows went very well. Started on chosera 1k, didn't do circles just loots of x strokes. Moved to naniwa 3k then 8k and stopped there. On one razor I continued onto a coticule as a finisher (about 30-50 x strokes with no water). The shaves were surprisingly good from both razors, didn't feel much of a difference from the 8k finished razor.


The next razor was a wade and butcher wedge with a slight smile I restored, and I wanted to give "one stone honing" a shot. Set bevel on chosera 1k with slurry this time(heard it gives smoother edge) with a bunch of circles then moved to coticule with medium/heavy slurry and kept diluting whenever I felt nessecary, until I got to water. I spent a while on the coticule. The shave wasn't very good off this blade. It still shaved but not like my Dovos.

I guess my question is, what step should I take with the wedge?? Do I have to go all the way back to 1k?? Or can I throw it right on the naniwa 3k? Thanks guys, sorry for the long post.