Hello,
yesterday I had a good honing session. My Dovo needed some refreshing. So I took my 8K and started to do some strokes. After a few strokes I did the inspection with a 30x lupe. The blade looked quite rough so I took 5K and proceed few strokes. The feedback was so strong. I have not ever before felt so big difference between these stones. It was a great feeling to notice such a thing. The feeling was amazing, hard to discribe.

I have not used 5K for a while, maybe a couple of months. Have used only 8 or 12K for refreshing. Whether the time to make a trick, and increases the sensitivity of the hand? What you think?

When I started to learn honing (about 18 months ago) I had a stone and a stone and a stone.
Now I have four different stone (1, 5, 8 and 12K) and looks like I am now really understanding or feeling how different they are.

The result/shave was very good.

Just wanted to share this with you.