Quote Originally Posted by Utopian View Post
Since you have and use a few barber hones, I'll point out another stupid potential mistake. When you hold a barber hone, you can either keep your hand fully open with the hone simply resting on top, or you grip the hone with your fingers. Now, if you choose the latter strategy, make sure that your thumb is BELOW the top surface of the hone! This is especially important because a barber hone is used to maintain an ALREADY SHARP razor!

Over the years, I have made that mistake twice.
I was contemplating that just last night while honing on my Swaty.