Quote Originally Posted by duke762 View Post
Welcome to the forum. I was troubled by constant differences between heel and toe sharpness. Thought I was doing everything right. It was suggested to me that I either lower the hone or raise my elbow to compensate for any heel bias I was putting on the blade......Worked like a champ. Hope this helps.
The most common honing motion (sort of an X stroke) tends to have the heel leave the hone and strop when the toe gets the
most touch time on both. Playing with a magic marker can help you see this, even on a strop.

You can play with heal first strokes, diagonal strokes where the entire blade is always in contact.
You can play with very linear hone strokes where the heal or the toe is always in contact.

You can play with circles on the finest two hones you use. The circle tends to rock a bit from
toe to heel and heel to toe.

When playing use a light touch and the old magic marker so you can see things that are hard to feel.