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For me starting restoration work showed me I am spoiled and have no patience. I want the razor to be beautiful because I bought the tools capable of helping me make it beautiful. I am not willing to sand and sand until it is where it needs to be. I played with two razors, only as much as lightly cleaned them and got frustrated when I realize how much work it was going to be.I should put that on a plaque at the honing station. Or maybe at the foot of the basement stairs to keep me from running up to the den for a premature shave test.
BTW, I think starting restoration honing with a full set of lapping films showed me the value of small jumps in grit, in that with small jumps I got to feel the blade improve and top out more frequently. Plus films do not like pressure.
Same with honing. I want to put the razor on the Stone and immediately get know what to feel for, know what to do, get a perfect edge right away. I end up with an edge that barely shaves. And it's flaws are probably underlined by my poor shaving skills.
Obviously, I am a fool. I want the reward without having to work for it. Its almost as if I have been led to believe that I can just wish it to be true, and it will. It is hard work to do hard work (hard work for me is work that requires patience and is repetitive). It is hard work to change myself. But I think it All starts there.
I don't have a personal experience to form an educated opinion on small vs large grit jumps. I've seen SEM microscopy shots of a 320 dmt to shapton 16k glass Jump. It worked, the edge looked just the same as when put through a progression of smaller jumps. Probably took a loooot of laps though. So on one Hand, why spend money on more stones if I don't need them? On the other, why not make it easier for myself and more enjoyable in a sense of maxing out Stone after Stone, knowing after each one I am done removing previous scratches and making my Apex more refined, my edge straighter.