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When your pressure is virtually 0 - only what is needed to keep the blade evenly flat on the hone - and you stop seeing improvement, then the stone is effectively maxed out.

Here are a few...

My best guess is the Norton 8k is fine and quite fast. If you got your razor straight on the 4k, you can have the 8k work done in less than 10 strokes. Which means it's probably quite easy to go...

It's a combination of carbon content and heat treatment. Typically stainless steels sacrifice carbon content for chromium to add rust resistance, so typically speaking they will not be as hard as a...

Seems to me like they make them of both carbon and stainless. So it all depends on which you bought.

Rough debris on the 8000 stone? You mean black shmootz (swarf) or some sort of foreign material? If you felt any sort of hard bump it may well have rolled or chipped the edge, and it doesn't take...

Yeah, the way you describe is somewhat how I go about it. I'll do a set number, check, then decide if I'm moving on or staying on the same stone. I do agree with Rod, your count on the 4 and 8 looks...

Since you chose to start with the Norton stones, here's a video to help you along (if you haven't it yet):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

It's actually in that thread linked by...