Shaving off the hone

Decided to do a little experiment and shave off the hone with no stropping. Just wanted to see how fine the finish was on the Nakayama #2 but it could have been any hone. I first dulled my Bridge 5/8" 1955 Russian blade and used soft uchi slurry for circles.
3-4 passes and then refresh the slurry and did push strokes still on slurry, tested well so went on to hard uchi slurry and 30 or so X strokes.Also tested well so onto water and 50 X strokes.

that's it and shaved with it this morning

Damn near perfect shave, sharp, smooth and quiet! Almost a one pass effort but i even went against the grain on the jaw/chin to see if it would handle it and it did no problem. Nice. I could theoretically just use the stone with water for touchups when it starts to pull ,instead of stropping. we'll see.

interesting experiment though and very pleased with the results. Now I can find out exactly what the specific stone's edge will actually be like, without mudding the waters with another hone( which is what a strop really is.)