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You'll need something between the soft Ark and Ark black. Possibly try and find a Barbers Hone, they are in the 6k-12k range.

The best plan would be to buy several synthetic hones to fill the...

If you are going from a 200 grit diamond hone to Ark Surgical Black, that's WAY to big of a jump, you'll need at least a 1000 and 6000+ hone before the Ark. You will want an almost mirror finish on...

Probably the best thing for almost any new SR user is to try and find a experienced user near you and get some hands on lessons (stropping, honing, shaving etc) you can do a advanced member search...

Depending how abused or where the edge started at, you probably need to go to a lower grit. I would also check for a frowning edge, this will make it nearly impossible to hone until the frown is...