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If you can afford to keep all your hones, it's a good idea. Sometimes one won't quite do it for a razor, and it's always good to have a plan B around.

Now that is one complicated progression you're talking about. It's nice to have lots of hones, but you don't need to use them all every time. If I wer you, I'd probably go Suehiro 1k, Norton 4k,...

If you are going to do your initial work on a DMT, the Naniwa 1k's softness would be no problem, because you'd not have nearly as much work to do on it. For me, it's just heavy work on the Naniwa 1k...

I used to do all my honing with a King 1k (cheapest I found) and a BBW/coti. The jump is definitely not too large from the 1k to either the BBW with slurry or the Coti with slurry.

Personally,...