I planned to listen to the vets and not start honing yet, but...

[DFriedl]

I saw a very inexpensive generic combo stone on that big auction site and my five unhoned razors and the barbor hone that came with one called out to me So I read a lot and watched a lot of videos and honed a couple of razors. I'm pretty happy to have more than one honed razor now. I tried to hone three razors; two turned out good (smaller vintage Solingens) and one never really sharpened up. The one that didn't work out was a certain infamous cheapy that I bought just to see how bad or good it really was. That razor may be able to be honed, but not by me at this stage of my learning.

I probably should have put this in the Maintenance -> Honing section. Sorry.