Hey OP. Long-time member (mostly lurker) here. I see that gssixgun (Glen) mentioned a Zoom session, so I thought I'd chime in. I have been honing razors for about 10-12 years. I was always able to hone well enough to shave but my results were inconsistent. My best and worst results were mostly accidental. I do not knock this forum specifically but as a general rule I find that forums are not the best places to dissect or solve some of the more complex aspects of any issue. Quite frankly there are people on just about every forum who express opinions as fact about things they may not have even tried. For myself it translated to a lot of background noise and made discerning what parts of the information available were good, better, best… or just wrong. I turned to Glen. We had one Zoom session that lasted less than an hour. I asked basic, direct questions about what I was doing and got no nonsense answers about what was good and what I could throw away. Glen offered me a systematic approach toward evaluating and improving my honing. That one session gave me more than all the years of lurking on forums ever did. Without exaggeration I am now honing with a far better means of evaluating where my edges are and what is required to get them where I want them. I have re-honed my entire collection and turned one mediocre shaver after another into great performers and even revived a couple that I thought were goners. As it turns out I wasn’t that far off. I just needed that professional eye to help cut through the noise and get things on a better track. I really wish a similar opportunity existed when I first started honing. When you seek answers there isn’t really a better alternative than having a direct conversation with someone who is a highly regarded professional in their field.