Thread: Finish on my Bevel

I did some honing on 5 blades and I'm pretty happy with the outcome. The shave test passed with no pulling. Slid right thru the whiskers.

Got to looking at the bevels and here is what I seen... Mirror finish with scratches still in it. This was the worst spot on the blade.

Honing was done with Norton 1K, 4K, 8K, Then Naniwa 12K. Then stropped with 50 passes on cloth and 150 passes on leather. I'm seeing a few deep scratches still in the bevel. In your opinion, should I have spent more time on the 8K to cut those scratches down a bit more? Or maybe more time on the 4K and 8K? Or do all bevels end up looking like this after the polishing with a 12K and its normal?

As you all know, I'm very new to honing so I'm looking for direction to get the best out of my honing. I'm very happy that I'm getting somewhere with the synthetic stones as with the Naturals I wasn't gaining any ground that I could tell. I'll figure those out too some day but for now I want to figure out what is normal or best when honing or what is standard or proper. Thanks for any directions ol' honemiesters of the SRP!