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I use one of those little triangular knife hones to set the bevel when I first get them home from ebay. A narrow hone really does help for this initial step, especially if there's a significant...

The edge is in the plane of the blade, but the blade is not in the plane of the hone.

Smiling blades are honed with a rocking motion on the hone.

A smiling blade isn't necessarily improperly honed, even if it has a straight spine. At least some of the old barber's manuals taught...