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Now THAT makes a lot of sense!

I took a 2nd look at honing and the directions of the striations. The recommended X-pattern actually makes the striations point AWAY from the toe so the above makes less sense.

I'm not sure how important this is but the barber texts always show the transverse component of the shaving stroke to be in a direction towards the toe of the blade. They also always show all honing...