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When I am talking about setting the bevel what I am trying to say in much fewer words is creating an apex as perfectly as I can from the point to the heel, and establishing it for the firs time,...

True story dshaves. The bevel set is the foundation in which the rest of you progression builds on to create a polished edge. There are a ton of ways to get there and most of them are correct and...

Unless you are shaving at each hone as part of a learning process they only prepare the edge for the finish, so it is only their performance that matter, not how smooth of an edge you can get with...

That is mostly correct. I still do sometimes shave off an 8K edge. An 8K edge on an older Sheffield can be a thing of beauty.

I am in a similar position, I have a Norton 4/8 that I am happy with the shave from, however the 4K side is nearing the end of its service life. So I too would like to hear from people that have...