Originally Posted by
JOB15
Thanks for the replies.
When I swap hands it is to work the opposite side of the blade . The reason I do that is because I don't feel comfortable flipping the blade in the same hand I started with and doing circles going up the hone. If I swap hands I can go from top to bottom.
I think some of the problem is that I write with my right hand but the rest of me is all left.
I'm left footed, I throw a ball with my left, I punch with the left, I shoot rifels on the left, on a motorcycle left bends are my favourite :)
Basically I think I've answered my own question here, hone with my left hand.
I do a multitude of strokes, rolling x and so on but that was always with synthetics.
Now I'm mainly honing on Jnats I feel the rolling x may add pressure at certain points of the stroke and I want weight of the blade only.
Also I cant do extravagant x strokes because I don't want the slurry to fall off the edge of the hone...