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In my experience, although you can just work a segment of the blade with varying degrees of sucess, keeping focused on honing the blade aas a whole helps the affected area without neglecting or...

I started honing like you did, Tom with the whole blade on the hone, but I do find te x pattern works better. Superfly did an animated gif of it. You should be able to see it here.

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Alan's absolutely right. Overhoning or leaning on the blade while honing will not produce a shaving edge no matter how hard I try. The same goes for the strop.

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You have to out fox 'em. It's hard 'cuz they're so wily and they never seem to fall for the same thing twice. ;)
Mine often gets away on me.

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