Originally Posted by
CrescentCityRazors
...Now if you get good coverage from the next stone, hone until you feel the razor sort of getting sucky or sticky with the hone. It will slightly resist your effort to stroke it along the hone. This is called stiction and you usually start seeing it at around the 8k level but if you are very perceptive and you are really nailing it, you will feel it at the 4k stage. It will increase, then stop increasing. That's where you stop, or at least shift into a stage finish mode. Honing for too long can give you a bit of fin or wire edge, unless pressure is absolutely dead light...