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If your barber hone feels sticky when you hone on it then it's overglazed and needs to be deglazed with a light buffing with 1000 grit sandpaper.

It may need to be lapped - the grittiness you feel may be the edge scraping against high points on the stone.

I prefer using emery paper for lapping arkansas stones because of their hardness, but...

The effect isn't quite like the N8k, because you can't ignore the effect of grit size on the way the edge feels against your face, but I get similar levels of sharpness out of the two. I'm talking...

Some of the woodworking guys may say that, but I don't know of anyone here that claims they produce a superior *shaving* edge. For that matter there are only a few here that will say that they...