Originally Posted by
the wanderer
What I've done is just place a piece of 400 or 600 grit wet-dry sandpaper on a plate of glass and use the marker test to determine when I've honed it down to where the entire bevel is making contact with the surface. Then I just hop on my DMT E (1200 grit) and continue my normal progression. This sometimes results in a little more hone wear than I would ideally have, but it works. You could probably lessen the extent of the hone wear caused by this kind of bevel setting by wrapping a piece of sandpaper around the spine and hand-sanding, and then reset the bevel, but I haven't really felt the need to do so.