Originally Posted by
joke1176
It really depends how bad the edge was. If it was similar to my usual ebay purchases, I use a DMT 1200.
Based on what you wrote, I think you spent too much time on the higher grit and not enough establishing a clean bevel first. Most razors should be able to cut hair by the time you finish on the 4k, then move to the higher grits.
It seems to be a pretty common mistake (based on what I have done and read here), that the newer honers jump to finer grits too early.
Hell, I still get impatient and "jump grits" sometimes, and sometimes it works.... but most times it just takes forever to get a shave sharp edge. Longer than it should really. :o
I'm not a honemeister, but I have about 20-ish razors I have restored, so take this advice with my relative inexperience in mind. :shrug: