I took my old antique store razor to my barber to have honed and stopped and he gave it back to me shave ready. I found that I can barely shave a hair on my face. I took it back to him when I got my last haircut just to make sure that it was indeed shave ready. He took me into the back room and gave me a honing and stropping lesson and again said that the razor was indeed shave ready.

Not sure what I am doing wrong but I can do nothing more than shorten the stubble on my cheeks. Everyday I try to use the straight razor to shave my cheeks and then have to complete the shave with my DE.

I've tried playing with razor angles (shooting for 30 degrees) to no avail. Any thoughts on what I might try or is this a normal learning curve? I've been trying this for a couple of weeks now.

Thanks.