Thread: No clue, no microscope, first honing, shave test average

Yesterday I honed my first real blade. It seemed rather sharp, so I just honed it on the coticule, first with slurry, then diluting it. I must have done about 200 laps. The blade didnt feel that sharp on the thumb; it did dig in, but required a bit of pressure. In comparison, the blade hi_bud_gl honed for me will slice in without me even noticing unless I remove the blade from the thumb and use fingers from the other hand to spread the area open.
I did a few dozen more laps on the C w/ water and the blade felt marginally sharper. It did shave wet arm hear effortlessly. It also popped standing hair, some of them (not all), with a ping sound. It felt rough and seemed to pull a little on the hair and ripped / sawed it rather than sliced / split it.
My arm started to feel tired so I replaced the razor and hone with the keyboard and mouse of my PC and logged into SRP. Posted a few stupid comments and scared people in the chat room away. That made me feel better so I started to strop the hell out of the razor on a red and green pasted paddle strop. It felt even smoother on the skin then, so I decided to put it away for a shave test this morning. And I quickly put my sleeve back down before the wife notices that there's hair missing from my arm.
Test shaving it this morning, it felt a little rough but not as bad as the "shave ready" razors I bought at the end of last year. I went WTG and XTG (and ATG on the cheeks only) and got a pretty close shave. I had razor burn for half an hour to an hour and that's it (I have sensitive skin).

Any input / comments? Doesnt it sound like I didnt hone it enough? Like I polished with the coticule but did not get to the very edge during the CWW stage?

Does the edge have a smile or is it just all over the place?