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Thanks! And you really nailed it because the point of honing is to abrade the edge into a new bevel, not to grind the spine away. I like your 60/40 description. It's enough to keep spine...

Contact with the spine is only for the sake of assuring a consistent bevel angle. It's the contact with the edge that is critical and I think with too light a stroke, it's easy to get a little...