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:tu When I honed professionally my standard was to hone optimally for people with sensitive skin. That taught me a lot about steel , razors & honing them. It also retained 100% of my clientele...

Not sure what causes it but be very careful you don't get larger broken particles in the mix which will chip your blade in an instant. Make sure the cleaning stones edges are all chamfered & watch...

What was Jimmy's saying? The higher the magnification the worse my honing looks :roflmao

Another way to skin the cat.

I only use an 8x loupe. It's inexpensive for beginners and as a one on one process easy to teach & learn.

I think the minimum one could use would be a 12k for "one...

I guess if a beginner has a good teacher whose aim is to "do no harm" when honing it's all good.
I am mostly an "optics" user so I feel that is the gentlest way to go & also the most precise but I...

Bingo ! Stiff & heavy quarter hollow razors, as made by most if not all modern cutlers have plenty of steel to play with & as you say "are just a chunk of steel". It is replaceable after it's use...

Used to be a video floating around of one of the ex mods . I think it was Joed.
Dude was like a metronome on fast when he honed :roflmao
That cat never chased a burr or needed to.

We all do...

A sharp edge can be built in many ways but how durable is it ?
Seeing how long it survives just using a strop as maintenance would be a good follow up experiment. Of course that would be a measure...

All good.
I just didn't want our members to think doing a "Ripley " & nuking the planet from orbit was a regular honing procedure :D

Livi was also a knife maker prior to making razors so the...

I'm surprised no one has brought it up but deliberately chasing a burr on razors will lead to more wear. How much exactly I dunno but certainly more than just alternating laps.

I guess you have...