Thread: First time honing

Here is what happened IMHO...
Your Dovo had the factory edge on there, some of these actually can shave (very freaking few) when you were just stropping you were keening up that factory edge, and you were doing OK, not great but OK... Now when you ran the 8k on the factory edge you are actually on 2 different bevels because they lift the spine at the factory, which you didn't do when you honed it,(which is correct) so you lost that factory bite, and don't have enough stone to re-create a real edge....
Get it honed, and get more stones, if yer going to actually hone razors, at least something in the 4k range... One of the reasons that we recommend the Norton 4/8 so often is it works, might not be the best, but it is a perfectly serviceable set up....