Thread: Honing on dry hones

I have now been at straight razor shaving and honing hobby for nearly a year and loving every moment of it. I've said in other posts that as a long haul truck driver, this is a great on-the-road hobby, past time. I have learned much from going back and reading old posts and threads on various subjects, mostly honing and certain hone types. SRP is not my only source of information. I use YouTube videos, other internet sources, and have called and personally visited with certain shop owners across this great country.

I now have 9 new or NOS razors from Dovo, TI, Wacker, Dorko, Henckel; and picked up some used pieces off eBay in good shape. I'm not into doing restorations. And 2 Gold Dollars.

I also now have a complete set of Shapton Glass stones through 30k, 3 coticule, 3 Arkansas stones (2 hard black, 1 translucent), and recently a Zulu Grey. I hone some every day. I've taken to holding the stone in my left hand as I hone. I believe I sense feedback better this way. I'm doing well with coticule slurry and dilution too.

Something I've started with the Arkies, coticule, and Zulu is to hone on the stone dry at the end of the session for a few laps. I'm getting good results, meaning comfortable shaves. I read among the Zulu threads where one fella was doing the same, dry on Zulu, with good results.

My question is this: do any of you hone on a dry hone with these specific stones? Or other stones? With what results?