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There are a few good reasons. The two main ones are that you have a much better feel for the pressure that you are honing with and secondly your honing medium tends to follow the shape of the edge. By following the shape of the edge, I mean that it tends to hone along any slight smile that may be in the edge.I have noticed this comment more then once in the forum but have not seen an explanation. Just curious of the reason should you be honing in hand on lapping film and pasted strop?
Please excuse my ignorance and off topic question
Honing bench-mounted does not have the above advantages. As a person becomes more proficient in honing, they tend towards bench-mounted honing. I now set bevels and do initial refining bench-mounted. I still use my lapping films and (always) pasted balsa in-hand. I have only honed about 100 SRs from bevel set to finish so I am still perfecting my honing technique.
When using my Adaee #12000 Cnat whetstone, I do hone bench-mounted and that seems to work will for me. I must be improving.