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Thats a good point, I do that too. Especially when recurving an edge.

When I teach people to hone I allow them to use two hands on the 4K as this stone has so much more "jump and bounce". :)

Its a very good thread and another example for all learning that there are many ways to do this art.

I find that trying to "control" pressure with the other hand is difficult and probably a...

In the big picture the hone width means very little as long as it is wider than 1/2 the length of the blade.

In this example mentioned the bigger the hone the harder it is to hold in your hand....