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Interesting. So if the cushioned strop hone is 6K and the Lithide is 8K, that puts the Gem hone at 7K. So these three hones are closer together than I thought.

I think I'm closing in on my problem...

Here's where I am in my experimentation: if I finish on the cushioned strop hone, I get 3 or 4 good shaves, then it starts pulling & burning like hell, and a chrome oxide pasted strop does not...

Hey Josh,

Right now I seem to be having the opposite problem (as I describe in my other thread). My beard is so coarse that I get a wonderful shave with just the cushioned strop hone, and if I go...

It's good to be here! No, I've never owned a Norton hone. I've read that the Lithide hone is around 12K, so based on that I'm guesstimating that the Gem hone is around 8K and the cushioned strop hone...

Does anybody know roughly what is the corresponding Norton grit size of the cushioned strop hone that comes with Tilly-s 3-hone beginner set? I e-mailed Tilly & she says she has no idea. It's a...