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When you have done hair test in the past, does a razor catch or cut a hair easily?

If so, try stropping on leather 15-20 laps and see if it will cut or catch hair. I don’t cut hair just look to...

Here is a good video on checking for a fully set bevel, you will want to check the area of the chip especially and go just a bit deeper to get to good steel.

Any reflection, no matter how small,...

No, fully remove it on the 1k.

Do high angle strokes on the 1k until it is almost gone, then tape the spine as you did and hone it completely out.

Completely re-set the bevel on the 1, or you...

Either way works and will remove exactly, the same amount of material, (equal to the bottom of the chip) and probably about the same amount of time.

A lot depends on the tools at hand. Typically,...