This is for all those honemeisters out there.

I was just looking at the Nassrasur web site and noticed a honing technique used by Norbert Schick that looked very different. He is using a Norton 4X8K and his strokes are not in an X pattern except at the very end on the 8K. He begins on a 90 degree angle and simply pushes the blade straight up the stone, turns it over and brings the other side straight down the hone. At the very end of the clip he follows an X pattern on the 8k side just before going to the leather strop.

Because I am trying to learn how to consistently hone my own razors, what is the benefit of such a technique? Have any of you tried this and found it to work?

I have a Norton 4X8k

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