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Ok so are the black stripes attributed to my honing or to my stones?

I have Lynn's DVD and watched it twice (great video). As per my discussion in a previous thread about the inefficiency of the X pattern on a 3" stone, I only use X strokes on stones less than 3".

So I made it a goal to devote an evening to learn honing. I lapped the 4/8K with the D8C using the pencil, honed, saw no results from razors and ended up with weird stripes:gth. I lapped the 4/8K...