Thread: Sharpness after Honing

Hello everyone,

I would like some insight into how sharp you experienced honers expect your razors to be in between honing and stropping. When I am finished with my Shapton 12,000 I can often shave arm hair pretty smoothly but the razor doesn't seem to be passing the HHT consistently. Do I need to spend more time on the Shapton? Or could this be my jumping too quickly from 8k to 12k? My progression is as follows: I do circles and x strokes on a Norton 4k, X strokes only with hardly any pressure on a Norton 8k, and then follow up with no pressure x strokes on a Shapton 12k. I'm pretty much just following Lynn Abram's video on Youtube using the Norton 4k/8k combination stone. My razor is a Dovo Prima Silver Steel.

Or, do you guys not expect to pass an HHT until after stropping?

Thanks for your help. Just a beginner trying to get my sea legs here.