Quote Originally Posted by sarend View Post
Holy smokes! I now know one thing for sure; I don't know anything. All of you have a ton of knowledge on metallurgy and honing stones; plus you have all your years of experience.

I am just happy reloading and homemade bread making are easy to me. I went ahead and ordered a 1000 grit stone today. I figured one more stone just opened my abilities, what there is to them, one more notch.

Laugh! I thought I would jump into SR shaving,; get a single razor, strop and some stones; and that would be it. Laugh! That was like thinking flying would be easy. Oh well, I concurred the latter, but I think the former will take longer than 45 hours of training.

Thank you all for your answers. Take care.
Hey sarend, don't feel bad. I am as clueless as you say you are on this theory stuff. A friend told me just yesterday that a micron is a millionth of an inch. I don't know the math but I can hone razors. I don't have a problem with guys who do know what they are talking about expounding on all of the technical stuff, in fact I rather enjoy it.

OTOH, I didn't need to know it to learn how to set a bevel and further refine the edge, strop and shave. Sort of like when I was younger and connected iron on buildings. I wouldn't have known what to do with a slide rule but I could climb a column and take a spud wrench and a 6 pound beater and hang that iron.