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

Your experience kind of mirrors the epiphany I had a couple of pages back doing this experiment with my Chosera-I literally could not believe what a great smooth shave it was. To your questions about the most important factors, I believe a little of all of the above played into it.

But my opinion, at least for me, I believe that just spending a little more time and care in inspecting and refining the edge on that 1k bevel setter (or whichever one you use) makes most of the difference, and lays the foundation for going up the grits. With that experiment and since, I have started doing maybe 20-25 ultralight "finishing strokes" and then stropping before moving up-makes all the difference.

Roy/Cudarunner often recommends test-shaving off of the hone, stropping on your linen component and testing again, and then testing a final time after the leather to get an education in what each stage is doing. This makes perfect sense to me. Congrats on your results!