I was kind of hoping to avoid telling much of what I did. I used enough different combinations of stones it is hard to remember and kind of embarrassing.

Here goes:

When I started, there was a nick in the blade that didn't extend across the bevel. So, I taped it and honed it on the DMT 1200 until the nick was pretty much gone (thinking the rest of the honing would get rid of the remainder. I wanted to finish up with natural stones so I skipped the DMT 8000 and went to the BBW with slurry.

Being an impatient soul, while honing on the BBW, I thought this might go a little faster if I went to my pink coticule with slurry. So I switched.

While honing on the coticule, I thought (too much thinking time with all this honing is all I can say), I have this fairly fast cutting J-Natural I got from Zethlent, this would be a good time to see how fast that REALLY cuts.

After some time on the J-nat. I think this isn't going like I hoped and I probably should have switched over to the DMT 8000 in the first place.

After a while, I checked it and it is kind of sharp and so went to polishing it on the J-nat and then the butterscotch hone (which I think is a translucent Ark) but the nick isn't completely gone, but this has been going on too long doggone it.

It seemed sharpish, but I hadn't really gotten that dang nick out, so I said "Py you should have spent more time on the 1200 in the first place." Of course I was right and had wasted a bunch of time. so I went back to the 1200 and finally got rid of that nick.

I then went up to the 8000 and then bounced between the J-nat, the coticule, and the Olivia hone for a while and she polished up nice and shaved OK.