Just shaved off of the first razor I ever honed. Old barbers razor. Orginally dull and rusted on edge. The spine had more wear in the center than at the toe and heal. I have cereal bows that are not as dished as the hone that the barber had. When I set the bevel on the 1k norton, the bevel was about 3/16 at the heal and toe, but a little more than 1/16 in the center of the razors edge. Spent about 25 minutes on the 1k and checked the edge with a marker while honing to be sure that I was beveling from heal to toe. I was, and did not want to remove to much metal and was thinking about an article of lynn's where he stated that he likes to shave off a small bevel, so I got off the 1k and did a pyramid progression from 25/25 on the norton 4k/8k down to 1 stroke on the 4k to 5 on the 8k. Was popping hair, but would not pass hanging hair test. Since the razor that I had "professionally" honed would pop hair and would not pass hht, I decided to stropp it 50 strokes and test shave. The shave was real nice, no tugging, only cut mysef one time, on the chin. QUESTION is, if the razor shaves right, is the bevel right? My limited understanding is, being that the spine wear determines the new set bevel, Do I go back to the 1k and remove a small mountain of steal, or keep shaving with it and gradually even out the bevel next few times I need to hone? Any feedback, words of wisdom or waxing phylisophocal would be appreciated!