Quote Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003 View Post
No worries, No harm no foul. wise man said when it stops being fun, its time to take a break.
Remember that wet shaving isnt speed shaving, and no part of the process is meant to be fast.
Even the pros have a deliberate order of operation they follow, and the other wise man said 90% of what we do is test.
If you apply all this to the midrange honing it will happen. Do you know what you are looking for? Do you know what you are feeling for?
Humbly a honing session live can greatly reduce the learning curve and it will be a great confidence builder.
Yes your looking for less deep and rugged scratch pattern.
You were a Coti guy starting out. Are you still?
Because that changes alot with regards to scratch pattern.
Then we would talk about feel doing TPT
No sir, i traded my last coticule and bbw to another member here. My honing now consists of barber hones. I bevel set a king 1k right to barber hones and then finish on them too.

Now would be a great time to talk tpt. When starting out I thought that meant plucking the edge which I now know isn't the real tpt. Today I actually decided when to test shave off a tpt a smooth sticky feeling along the whole edge and to my surprise the test shave went so well I shaved my whole face. Smooth and comfortable

One of the reasons I abandoned my water stones, and my coticules/bbw is because I couldn't nail the mid range sharpening. When I got a combination barber hone a few months back from a fellow on etsy, my mid range skills improved tremendously. I don't know why or how, but they have been the only consistent way for me to get a shave ready edge... I even tried oil stones to no avail..

The look on the edge is different from barber hones then to many other hones.