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Ernest, if a newb reads any of the help files on honing, he won't be using a technique that comes anywhere near the risk of gouging a hone.
As for the 8k ceramic hone, I saw it for sale @ Lee...

It wasn't you who got me upset. It was the fact that Ernest's misinformed horror stories about hone-gouging and the implication that a $280 Shapton is the only viable alternative to the scary sharp...

This is beginning to spread paranoia :rant:

There's NO CHANCE of gouging your hone while honing a razor by accident. You'd have to do it on purpose. Even if you decide to give the gouge-honing...

I'm not saying that everyone should have a $300 shapton, but... $30 pair of Japanese slip-stones will get your razor up to the point where you can use abrasive pastes to get the finest edge possible....

Unless you're really destitute, I'd just bite the bullet and get a real hone. You'll be thanking yourself over and over again over the decades.