Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
There is your problem,, never use a slurry after the bevel setting stage period... you just don't need it, not with those stones... I would drop the 6k and the 10k out of the mix for right now too, just to simplify..
I also think the OZ man might be right, depending on your count and the pressure used, overhoning is hard to do, but with the slurry you might have....

Also I think all of you are confusing sharp and smooth, a razor can be both, but it takes talent and practice...
When it come to getting that combination it is the hand, not the stones that make it happen...
+1

I was eating a grapefruit last night and I used a small kitchen knife to separate the fruit from the web if that makes any sense. One knife cut right through the web the other would slide along the web freeing the juicy bits... That one I had been playing with a Chinese polishing stone on to see how the stone acts....

I think the key to shaving is to find the very fine balance between the edge that cuts whiskers and not the face. Since we all have different faces that "best" shave has a different balance point for each of us.

To some degree I believe the effect the OP is seeing is why the pyramid method and a light touch works for so many. It makes no sense for polishing telescope mirrors but it works for razors.