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This is not the first time around for this topic. Unless I am experimenting with a new hone I always strop, but it is a very good experiment in edges. Of course if you only ever do it with one hone...

I shave straight off the hone when I am trying out a new hone from a new spot rockhounding. I do a simple prep, and lather with the same soap. It is to feel what the hone does to the edge and not...