Originally Posted by
RayClem
Your are lucky in that you did not ruin the razor and your only injury was a bruised ego.
I agree with RezDog that the biggest problem with the razor is the heel. Whoever honed the razor never got the bevel set properly at the heel. It looks like the shoulder of the blade might need to be ground down a little to allow the blade to lay flat on the hones from heel to toe. A similar modification has to be made to Gold Dollar razors to allow them to be honed. Another modification that could also be done is to round off the edge of the blade at the heel so it no longer needs to be honed. That is another modification some people make on Gold Dollars. Although Dremel tools are often used to grind down the shoulder, they are too hard to control to round the edge. I learned that the hard way.
Since you are new, I would recommend you send your razor to someone who is familiar with honing less than perfect razors and let them fix it properly. They may charge more than their usual honing fee since some extra work will be required, but then they may not.
If this were my own razor, I would make the repairs myself; but I would not feel comfortable working on a razor for someone else. There are a number of people on the forum that do have the required experience. Hopefully, one of them will step up.