A few years ago there was a method in vogue of dulling the edge on a bottle by lightly stroking the cutting edge on the glass. The theory being that you wouldn't be fooled into thinking that your current honing got the razor sharp when it was already 'there.' I tried that a couple of times and decided it wasn't something I wanted to continue doing.

If I have a shave ready razor, honed on a particular finisher, and I want to see if honing it on another type of finisher will improve or degrade the edge I just go to that other finishing stone. If it is a matter of using a different honing method entirely I might have to start from square 1 and reset the bevel ..... might not have to ..... I might just go 4k-8k and on up. A lot of room for variables in this honing biz.