I recently bought a straight edge blade but it wasn't professionally sharpened. I bought with that a strop. When I received it, I tried to use the strop to make the blade sharper, however it didn't do anything. Now I bought this whetstone king kw-65 combistone 800/4000 I tried to sharpen it with the 4000 side but it doesn't seem to work I must have done 30 run for both sides doing the X motion but it didn't seem to do anything. I tried to shave with that but first it always seem to be awkward to shave with the straight blade I can't really get all the hairs and I always seem to irritate my skin to the point of bleeding. Now after that I tried to hone with the 800 but it doesn't seem to do anything and I am really getting frustrated to this point. Also I have a shaving cream and that works fine but seriously holding the straight blade with the pinky on the aide and 3 fingers on the blade just doesn't seem to work. That's why I am asking you guys what am I suppose to do, I don't want to abandon this but I need to see that what I am doing is working.

Can you give me any advice ?