Well it was an unfortunate outcome. But now lets be optimistic and take this as an opportunity to learn something and conquer this problem. Since this razor is already marred you don't have to worry about keeping it pretty so to speak. So you went ahead and bought those Norton hones, great you have a razor that needs them. Before you dive into this make sure you have a few things first get a magnifier or loupe of some kind 30x to 50x will be sufficient. Very important to get those hones flat so either use the flattening stone that hopefully came with those hones or some 320 wet and dry sand paper put on a known flat surface and grid lap them flat. Get some good quality electrical tape 3m if available and have it handy by the way the spine wear looks its probably going to take 2 layers but if you want to get technical you could measure the width of the spine at the wear point and compare that to the width of the blade it should be about a 3.5 to 1 ratio approximately to get a decent edge. Now I suggest studying the videos done on the Norton system by Lynn Abrams, GSSixgun and even Hibudgl all of them very helpful. I would even start a new thread in the honing section of this forum and see if the experience of the honing community can see you through this razor. Mentors those guys with orange user names, ask them questions, a lot of them will do face time with you on Skype this can help also. Sorry i'm so long winded, I have faith you can make this razor shave great again and I think it will be liberating when that happens. Enjoy your journey.