Quote Originally Posted by mainaman View Post
Basically all the OP needs to do is stop asking and instead get to honing.
Practice makes perfect. Once perfection has been achieved with the Nortons, then one can start thinking about greener pastures of the stone world if one so desires. Other wise it all becomes one expensive mistake, to correct.
I speculate that the reason he's asked the question in the first place was to try and decide which way to go with his next hone purchase. I know that was an decision that I agonized over for quite some time after getting my Nortons. It took quite a while to realize the truth behind Glen's statement about everything else being icing on the cake. But I'll take the analogy one step further and liken shaving with an 8k edge to eating uniced pound cake. Sure, it's good, but it could be so much better....