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My feeling is because you will dish your hones more with a knife. So you will have to lap your precious razor hone more often. A hone as flat as possible is recommended for razors, for knives it...

When I joined Norton 4K/8K was the stone to have, for refinement of the edge a chromium oxide paddlestrop was used.
Members were experimenting with barber hones (vintage man-made hones), coticules...