Originally Posted by
LawsonStone
I suggest you send it to someone to be honed professionally. The stones will cost you more than 5 honings by a real honemeister. Learn to hone first by learning what a well-honed razor feels like, while you learn to strop correctly. Then get a barber hone and learn to freshen up the edge with light strokes on the barber hone. Then maybe get a high-grit finishing stone like a 12K to use when the barber hone won't do it. By then, you'll have all the skills needed to handle the razors on the hones, and you can get a 1K for bevel setting and maybe a 4K/8K combo for refining the edge.
What I'm saying is first learn to shave and strop, and a pro-honed razor is the best (really the only) way to get that right. Then work your way down from the easiest stuff to the hardest.
Just my view, YMMV