Thread: Need help with first honing project!

+1 on what Alan said.

Tape the spine and hone on the 1K till you have established a good bevel. You should be able to shave arm hair along the entire edge, at that point. Don't be afraid staying on one side for awhile, doing circling motions or honing back and forth without lifting or flipping the blade. Don't worry to much about the width of the bevel planes. Often razors have a slight warp in the blade, which shows up in the width of the bevel planes. On any given spot, one side can be wider and the opposite side narrower. The sum of the two should roughly be the same along the entire edge. The main goal is to have flat bevel panes that extend till they meet each other at the apex of the blade.

Once you're there, you can go to the Norton 4K and start honing with regular X-strokes (provided that the edge is straight) and low pressure. If you remove the tape at this point, you'd have to do some extra work on the 4K to make up for the slight alteration of the honing angle.

Good luck,
Bart.