Straight Razor Honing; 3 Methods to Even Bevel Widths When Using Laterally Convex Stones 12.19.2023 

you're welcome and thanks for watching

give it a shot, u have a 6.5'Ø-shaped stone, do you not?

I do!

I think when they had the Pike Ark wheels they started backwards and ended normal, but who knows, the info has been lost to time.

In all seriousness, the question at hand is the designation of "perfectly well"; if you are perfectly happy, perfectly content, with what you've got, don't mess about! To quote the great Charles Oakley, "If it ain't broke, don't break it." I thought a premium moving magnet cartridge rendered the music from my turntable perfectly well, until I tried a moving coil cartridge, which I thought did it perfectly well, until I tried adding a step-up transformer between the cartridge and the phono preamp,... It is a mental sickness. My own face, as I have aged, it is extremely challenging to get an edge which works well in the mustache area. Concaving the bevels, via the use of wheel shaped whetstones, was a large aid in this challenge, for me. Master grinders do it because they feel the razor edge should be concave, toothy, and if set on a wheel shape laterally across the stone, has some chance to remain with more width than if set with a flat stone.