Thread: Honemeisters Secrets

Ok, here goes. A general question for the honemeisters. Regardless of stones and tests like hht and thumb, is there a sound or feeling the blade makes on the hone when you are making your final passes, when you can feel that the razor is ready, when it is done. Now, the challenge. Can you describe that feeling? Is it stone specific or have you felt this across many stones? The thing I have learned in life is a true master of a craft, regardless of that craft, has a commonality in that they know when the masterwork is done. This is the place we aspire to reach. To know when something is perfectly finished. So what senses are peaked for you and what should us seeking to obtain the mastery of the art of honing feel, hear, see, smell, taste, that informs us as you are informed?