Hello,

Im new to staight razors and I hope this question has not been answered before. I tried to search for a thread for several days now but have come up with nothing useful. I hope someone here can help me out because I'm really getting annoyed. While honing my razor I noticed that only the left and right edges were being honed on one side while only the middle was being honed on the other. I looked closer at the cutting edge and noticed a slight bow in the overall cutting edge. Carefully holding a striaght edge to the blade only confirmed that the edge is slightly bowed. My question to everyone is " Is this normal to see or did I get a defective blade? And if it is normal am I just honing incorrectly? Please let me know. Thanks in advanced.