Thread: Could use some help...

I have a 4 sided paddle with paste but I have never used it as a substitute for hones so I cannot speak to that . Here is a post by Tony Miller explaining the pastes.

I have had better luck with the 0.5 diamond spray that SRD carries applied to their felt strop than I did with the pasted paddle. That may be because of my application of the paste. I don't know and I didn't use it much.

I have always honed one handed. You might try to work on dominant hand honing. I had the fingers of my left hand badly injured when I was a young ironworker. Took a year before I could make a tight fist.

Five years ago I took a spill on my road bike and broke my collar bone and separated my AC joint. I still have numbness in areas around my left wrist and it took awhile before I had full range of motion in the left arm. Hang in there and keep working on it and you will get better with time and physical therapy.