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As far as videos go this one really helped me a lot for the way I hone


http://youtu.be/eCCt4TSmoCo

http://youtu.be/da42vkYXmSE

The best thing you could do is find a honer local to you and see if they would give you a lesson or two, I did that and it was the best thing I ever did honing wise. I learned more in two hours in...

I would only use the diamond pasted side if it's tugging.

I do 30 linen and 50 leather laps everytime before I shave and 10 laps of each after the shave to dry the blade

We all develop our own tests, there is really no wrong answers as long as it works. I test on my arm hair, if it cuts VERY easily off the 1k I move up, as the edge progesses it will cut easier and...

One more thing, you are using tape on the spine, if the last person who honed the edge didn't use tape, you are changing the geometry slightly. Going from no tape to tape is easier than the...

The Nagura or the 1200 diamond should both raise a slurry. I use my 850 diamond hone for this all the time

If the bevel was set properly it should easily cut arm hair at the 1k level, I would try doing the circles method on the 2k with slurry at first then plain water. Stay on the 2k until it cuts arm...