Thread: Are You A Real Man? Do You Think You Can Hone? Shave Off Of Your 1k Hone

Originally Posted by Utopian

Yes! This is exactly why so many have said so many times that the bevel set is 90% of honing.

And that number might be low!

I've come to believe that the bevel might be as much as 95-97% of honing.

At his TomoNagura website, in one of his honing posts, Kieth talks about the bevel set as being more of a process that takes lace between that 1k and mid-range stone than a discrete event that takes place all of a sudden-which makes sense to me intuitively.

Well, it is all a matter of semantics. Once the two bevel planes meet along the entire length of the blade, the bevels are set and define the edge, but even on the 1k that is followed by lighter strokes to refine that edge. Everything above the 1k also just refines that edge.