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High pressure is never good. It causes the edge to lift up so your're actually honing or stropping some location back from the edge. What good does that do?

But as long as you don't go too far,...

I don't know about that. Leather stropping does no sharpening nor any real polishing. It's just not abrasive enough. The principle behing it is that shaving deforms the microserrations, making...

Pressure may not matter as much with barber hones, which tend to be finer and can be used dry, wet and with lather to vary their cutting action. I could see how on an aggressive hone like the Norton...