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My honing is always messy I'm afraid, and I just finished 6 razors for someone yesterday so the stones are dirty and ...well, I don't keep things very clean, sorry.

Got motivated to do a couple of...

Well, I have had a couple of vintage razors, and they were Sheffields, that were "chippy". And that's where a slower cutter (read: gentler abrasive) like a Tam O'Shanter can really come in handy. So...

Well one thought would be that if this is true it would only be the one-stone coticule (is that uni-cot??...mono-cot??....) honers that get good sheffield edges. Start with a synthetic bevel setter...

Well, I'm trying to coin a new honing phrase at the moment but it's not related to a stroke type.

You know when new people start out, how some of them are really good honers in their forum posts...

I don't do it but the nike swish is a long curve with a little flick the other way at the end, right? So I'd guess that's what the stroke would be like.

Not sure why you'd flick at the end of the...

I'm a bit of a tester too - different ones for different stages in the honing progression but I certainly test the edge to know when to move along.

Having said that I can see how, after doing it...