Quote Originally Posted by thebigspendur View Post
I think most guys don't realize how different honing these things can be. The more extensive the honing required the more radical the approach can be. I just finished honing up the kamisori for the razor pass around "General Tojo" and it needed extensive bevel work and I started on the Norton 1K and went to the Norton 4K then the Nogura Botan then the Norton 8K and finally the Escher. I used a variety of typical back and forth honing strokes and standard strokes and used varying degrees of pressure.

Like Glen said, it's all in the pressure. That's the art here and you can only learn that through trial and error.
+1.through trial and error make you perfect