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You might be, however it will be a learning process so nothing is lost. Experimentation and reading often go together for good learning. I played around for a bit with finishing on different...

Honestly read the old thread and shave after the 8K, and keep working at the 8K until you get it figured out.

You can get a pretty great shave off of the 8K. If you look back through the Janorton threads you can see some of the techniques used to get a good polish on the 8K. Glen has a couple of videos on...

Reading bad through a lot of old threads and there are several that explain it better than I do.

Well there are a variety of reasons which change with why I think I should kill the edge. One of the things that can help in not confusing what is happening with this time of working on a razor with...

I see nothing recent about it. There are threads about it going back a long long way. It is not an alien topic at all. It is kind of like taping, some do and some don't.

Personally I would kill it lightly, as in a light pass over a fingernail and go to the 4K. If it is over honing or micro chipping that should take the edge off and get you going again with the least...