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The other complication is that the 4k and 8k are slip stones so they don't lay flat but you can stack them on each other and then they are flat.

I'm going to have to get back to doing that. I use...

I figured it out. I have a full sized hone for the 1k and after the 1k it cuts hair. My 4k, 8k, and 12k are all small hand held hones. On the larger straights it all worked out.

With the smaller...

I don't use tape. I went back and tried again. At 1k it cut hair. After I'm though at 4k it doesn't.

Obviously I'm doing something wrong at 4k but I'm not honing any differently than any of my...

It's a vintage razor but they used to make a razor labeled "Spike". You see a lot of them on ebay.

I also have a Wade and Butcher of that size and I have the same problem with it.

For some reason I can never get 4/8 blades as sharp as my other straights.

When I'm finished with the others I can run the blade down the hair on my leg and it just pops off. When I do it with...