Originally Posted by
kuoytfouy
OK, I'll try to be a bit more descriptive if I can:
Say I have a 2 inch wide stone. I start with the heel very close to the right edge of the stone, and as I start to move the blade at an angle (by definition of the X pattern) the vicinity of the heel leaves the hone pretty quickly, say it stays on the hone for a fifth of the stroke duration, while the midpoint of the edge gets full time. The complement of this holds for the point of the razor.
Hope this clarifies what I'm trying to ask.