Originally Posted by
heirkb
So I tried some of the things people had mentioned.
I raised a light slurry on my Iwasaki choice stone and tried to hone a razor that used to shave (but not very well) but stopped shaving after I tried the methods I described in the OP. There's a confusing sentence. The razor shaved not well. Then I tried the methods I mentioned in the OP. It stopped shaving. That brings us to today. I did circles up and down 8-10 times. Then 20 x strokes. Still not great. So another 5 or so up and downs of circles and 15 x strokes. Still nothing really. I tried a light Meijiro slurry and did 4 up and downs of circles and 15 strokes then moved back to what I was doing before. Eventually gave up, because I came up with another idea.