Quote Originally Posted by Assym View Post
*Update*

This is where I was stuck with the film: noticeably sharper than the point at which it starts to cut whiskers, but nowhere close to smooth.
When this happened to me, I used a pasted strop with CrOxide. It improved the edge from "painful" to "shaveable".

That's a kludge, and I don't like relying on it. I think the real answer is to improve my technique on the 8K stone, till I can get a shave-ready edge off it.

Charles