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You can not make a stone softer.
Adding lather to the hone, or a little soap or detergent will make the hone more slippery.
You do that by making wet lather with your shaving cream or soap
and put...

stropping with a polishing compund should not be a matter of time.
By that I mean it is not true when it is said:
"If your razor is honed on 800grit all you have to do is make 30.000 strikes on...