Honing on a Kitayama - my 1st... I need your opinions?
Hey Guys,
So yesterday I honed 10 strokes on the Kitayama to discover that I am not sure if I saw really big change.
But I am not sure. It just shows how much of a newbie I am. I've been doing this for about 3-4 months now and am just getting comfortable shaving yet it felt like the razor might be getting less sharp and was failign some hanging hair test so I figured, time to polish with some people's advice here.
So I did that. As of yesterday I got a wonderful shave, tho what scares me is that while I try the thumb pad test and the thumb nail test, I see no real sensation that I could relate to the ones that you are supposed to feel. So I revert back to the hanging hair test.... that one, seems like the first 1/4 of my blade is still failing, leading me perhaps to believe I haven't honed properly or that it didn't do much?
Opinions...? Ideas?
Can I hone just the first 1/4 of it, or would that result in uneven metal removal and give my blade different heights in different sections?
I'm open for ideas!