I managed to track down a local who is skilled at honing straight razors, it only took about 2 years of casual searching, and a tipoff from a straight razor forum to a private facebook group, and then a tipoff from someone there to a local, I'm surprised I actually found someone at all honestly. His name is Joel and I told him about this forum so he will probably put up his own post. No review as of yet but I'll make sure to report back with how it turns out. Still am going to learn how to do all this either way.