Bear with me I have about 4 different experiments going on at the same time. Today I lapped a new hone, a SDnat. It is a piece of what i think is shale from a road cut in the Black Hills that i picked up about 10 years ago because I thought it looked cool. I took my experimental razor the Prince to the stone. OK not much better than the 8K norton.
Here is where it relates to this thread. I took my C12K slurry stone to it. Nice milky slurry. the bevel turned to a frosty look for a scratch pattern, but it was "duller". 50 or so X strokes. I got rid of the slurry and did 50 or so more with plain water. the thumb pad and arm hair tests indicated much sharper. The frostiness disappeared . I don't know at this time if I was removing the frosty pattern and making the 8k pattern visible or making more 8k scratches.
I hope this makes sense. LOL
I then did 20 laps on the Crox lightly pasted leather strop, 40 on fire hose, 40 on graphite leather and 40 on plain leather. Good shave!
See now why I have to many things going on at once? Not very scientific!
I will post a thread with pics of my SDnat tomorrow with some more info.
Tim