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What I did was leave the Lynn honed ones alone, they didn't need any help. I got vintage ebay and antique shop razors and practiced. Only took a hundred or so. :p

It is a matter of practicing until you have uniformity in your stroke and pressure .... or the lack of pressure. Honing is a learned skill with a lot of nuance. It is easy to demonstrate a technique...

I do 50 and 50 because that is what I thought I read in that thread I referred to previously. Going back to it and re-reading it sometime later I saw that I was incorrect. The post I followed said 30...

What you've just asked has been batted around probably since linen/leather stropping came to be. Even old barber manuals state both sides of the divide. It is almost as bad as tea party versus...