Quote Originally Posted by Dundee View Post
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I have set the bevel on a 1000 grit Japanesse water stone.
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I tried to flatten this side best I could, it still isn't 100% flat.
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Next step was 20 circular passes (each side) on 4000 grit waterstone, and 20 full laps leading with the edge. I don't have a 8000 grit stone
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First use a magic market to verify that
the bevel is well set at 1k and 4k. The razor
can have a lot of oddness in its shape and
variations in hone strokes can adapt. A modified
X hone stroke is worth some research. Magic marker
will make it easy to see if the entire bevel is
being honed well.

With a 4000 grit stone you are going to wish
you had a finer hone.

There is not too much you can do but there are
some make do tricks that might help.

You can save the slurry and swarf from your 4k hone efforts
and 'paint' it lightly on common cardboard. Fold the cardboard
along the corrugations so you have a three inch wide
flat surface. Let the "painted" cardboard dry and then
lightly strop your razor on the pasted cardboard strop. The slurry bits
will embed themselves in the cardboard and act as if they
are finer than 4k.

After a bit of stropping on pasted cardboard wrap some news
print on the cardboard "make do" strop and strop on newsprint.

After newsprint switch to your clean canvas strop (50) and then your clean leather
finish strop (50).