Quote Originally Posted by JoshEarl View Post
My beard likes a very smooth edge, so I try to use my Belgian blue to get out all of the lower-grit scratches. The Belgian blue leaves a nice, polished edge. Then I try to polish out all the blue scratches on my coticule.
Quote Originally Posted by randydance062449 View Post
... the scratch pattern has sharp ridge lines that I want to soften and the Norton 8K does not do that as well as the Tam....
Randy, Josh, this is great. I've always liked the Tam and the Belgian blue even more (it's like honing on velvet) but I've never understood what the hell I was doing and why.

I bought the Tam because Randy, Michael, and Joe use it. I was at the point in my honing learning curve – a very slow one, as I've admitted on several occasions – where in wondering why the razors Joe had honed for me were so great, and mine so mediocre, I concluded that it must be an issue of equipment, rather than talent.