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If you use the half lap, Japanese stroke, I find it most useful on the last few finish strokes or on the finisher, to only use one directional strokes for a finer finish, so that the finish strokes...

Using paste on a stone, while it can be interesting, does not really provide any benefit over stropping on a grit neutral surface strop, leather, cloth, nylon, paper and wood.

On some stones, were...

The half lap, Japanese style honing and the side honing method work well especially together.

The half lap when used with a progressively reduced lap count as in traditional Japanese Honing or...