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Wise, you are. ;)

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You are going to get a lot of opinions on stones here. Some guys would not do a Chinese synthetic from Amazon. I personally have no problem with them and have honed about 10 razors from...

General consensus is 1k - 2k for bevel setting with most of the guys (me included) going with a 1k for bevel set.
But you can set a bevel up to about a 4k stone. We know this because many guys have...

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Shooting from the hip here (so to speak) it sounds like you have a bevel set issue. If you don't set a proper bevel on a blade, then you can hone till the cows come home with a finishing...

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Welcome. IMO, you are already a good part of the way there because you actually know what a well honed razor that is truly shave ready is supposed to feel like when applied to your beard. ...