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No, there is no "flat on the hone" on a smiling blade, because the blade is curved like a saber. The rocking motion ensures that the entire length of the blade contacts the hone at some point over...

We may be saying the same thing in different ways. With a smiling blade you don't overhone the middle on narrow hones because only a few millimeters of blade is actually touching the hone. With a...

Translucent arkansas works, and black arkansas probably works as well. They're very slow, and I wouldn't use them for primary honing. It's not in the same class as the fine shaptons and coticules...

Smiling blades: Hold the blade spine-up. Smiling blades curve up on the heel and toe, frowning blades curve down. Smiling blades are honed by rocking the blade along the hone, on small hones this...

You can use a fine barber hone as a finishing hone, the 3-line swaty is probably fine enough to qualify. I've got a King barber hone that I finish some of my razors on, it's been lapped very flat...

The 15k shapton works well as a finishing hone. Lynn claims in his video somebody on SRP owns the mysterious and pricey 30k shapton, I'm still waiting to hear the review on that baby.

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