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+1. I don't do anything but X strokes, rolling X, unless it is circles or 'back and forth' while bevel setting. I don't know anyone who would do 'straight strokes' since the hone may have a certain...

One of the things I've come away with in learning new crafts, whether it was doing structural steel erection, installing expensive carpet, learning to tattoo, or to play the guitar, is that if you...

As a rule barber hones are 4'x2" minimum. The old barbers I knew back in the '80s mostly had coticules for finishing and they seemed to be coming from the barber supply @ 5x2-1/2". Eschers, which are...

AFAIC they are paper weights. If you have good honing ability you no doubt got it practicing honing on full size stones. The average barber hone was 4 to 5 inches long. Razor hones are typically 5"...