Quote Originally Posted by Jasongreat View Post
I cant remember for sure who it was(greg, glenn?) or where it was(on srp just cant remember the thread) but he said that he has only seen one overhoned razor and that was one he had purposely tried to over hone. He dared people to take an old razor and a course stone and sit there and hone and hone and hone and see just how much work it actually takes to overhone a razor. On the otherhand he said that he has seen tons of underhoned razors and he felt that was the real thing to watch for, if I remember right, especially for beginners.
It was a bigger problem back when the standard hone that everybody used was the Norton 4k/8k hone, and we shaved straight off of that hone. Simply stropping on chrome oxide is enough to fix most overhoned situations, but back then even chrome oxide wasn't in common use. The pyramid method was designed to minimise the risk of overhoning on the norton by alternating between two very different honing surfaces that tended to break up each other's overhoning issues, but the same thing would happen when you left the norton for a s15p/s16gs/s30p/s30gs, nakayama, coticule, or escher - except that these were either fairly rare (all), not recognized yet (nakayama, escher), or not yet on the market in a meaningful way (S30p, S30gs, nakayama).