Some helpful info. I will re-lap just to eliminate that for sure. It passed thru the hair on my arm like butter. Not experienced enough to know from a thumbpad test, and it passed a hanging hair test after the 12K but I only did the HHT at about a 3rd of the way from the toe. Being as it was a given razor maybe I will just start over after I lap the hones again. It did look like it was ground unevenly when i first got it. And the bevel wasnt much deeper than my pocket knife. So maybe I just didnt spend enough time setting the bevel. This time I will test more often during the process. If I cant do it myself this time I will definately send it out.
Thanks