I finally got one of my razors to be truly sharp last night! It's a vintage razor I got on eBay that had a small nick in the blade. I hone that out with the 230/1000 Norton and then got to work sneaking up on sharp. After about five iterations on the 4k/8k followed by the 12k Chinese stone, it's now sharp and smooth on the whole edge.

Man, what a difference! I've got two others that are close--sharp at least on part of the edge. One of them has a wicked smile to it and it very difficult. They shave tolerably well once you recognize which part of the blade works best.

The final razor is a new double arrow that just won't get sharp or even close. I've got a good bevel, but it pulls like a beast inspite of all my efforts. I've decided to put it aside for now and focus on getting the other two fully up to speed.