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You need to think in terms of grit. 6 micron is like 3K. I don't think you would want to do 250-300 on a 3K unless you had a sizeable chip. My gues is you went way past overhoning and came back...

There's a lot here that doesn't make sense. But it's not rocket science so we should be able to figure it out.

First of all, barber hones have been around a long time and many more people have...

I don't know. To me it seems like an awful lot of work, so it can't be very efficient. Usually it's more efficient to work you way up. For example, you might be able to get a fine barbers' hone...

From microscope photos, I can see that leather stropping makes a big difference after the 12K stone. The fin looks taller, which suggests that some kind of fin alignment is taking place. Maybe a...

Why do you need so many laps after coming off a stone that so close in grit? Is the Chinese stone that slow?

When you feel the dry surface does it feel coarser than a 12K?

I understand what you mean about the different standards for grit. What I don't understand is if you pick a standard, pastes with the same micron size sometimes come out to be different grits under...

There's quite a bit of confusion on these equivalents. If you look at the diamond paste data, a 6 is 3K, a 3 is 8K, a 1 is about 14K and a .5 is 50K.