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I can't tell using that technique.. maybe it my eyes, or the lighting. That's why I started using the marker. I was reading gssixgun's sticky post Hitting the "Stone/Hone" Wall, and more than a few...

It came to me in the shower... Funny how that happens.

The culprit must be poor bevel set. Even if I polished the heck out of it, if I moved forward without a well set bevel, all I have is a...

Butcher Brothers, Sheffield Steel... It's the top razor. Quality is relative, but it's no GD!!

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HA!! I thought of that as...

All good stuff, thanks...

I try to give each razor at least three days in rotation so I have a bit of time to get intimate with it's quirks. But having said that, much can be told from the first...

All good questions, thank you.

For more focus, consider that I did two razors back to back. Same stones though not the same number of strokes as each had different issues to contend with.
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Bout two or three weeks into honing. I have a King 1k, Norton 4/8 and Black Ark. I've got about a two dozen razors that were my fathers that I am working my way through honing. Some are in better...