Ok another hour on the coarse stone, fifty laps on the medium arkansas fifty laps on the hard arkansas, and two times through the aggressive pyramid and it feels close by the thumb test to where it was yesterday, not there but close. any guesses as to how many more pyramids before it is even worth a shave test? BTW the HHT never did work for me, I can't get it to work reliably with my shavette either.

Yes I do get frustrated very easily and will probably need to vent every so often. Partly it my personality and partly its doing a job where getting a bigger hammer and swinging it harder is usually the right answer.