Hi there!

I'm a bit curious to hear if anyone has a good way to measure sharpness as objectively as possible.

I've started shaving with a SR a few months ago. After getting it honed once professionally by Birnando (thanks again!) I decided it was time to get my own hone. When the blade dulled, I was still waiting on a hone to arrive in the mail, so I got a merkur futur DE razor with feather blades in the meanwhile.

Due to a very hectic schedule in August I hadn't had time to lap the hone and get started until now, even though I've had it for almost a month.
I finally got around to honing my razor two days ago. I followed gssixguns tutorial of speedster on youtube.

After the hone I stropped on a chromium (red) pasted strop for about 20 laps, and stropped on a plain strop afterwards for about 50 laps.

After this the razor would pop hairs just fine, and i shaved about half my face with it with no real issues. However, I felt like my merkur with feather blades was two or more "leagues" above in terms of sharpness.

I hear that feather DE blades are just about the sharpest thing in the world though, so I don't know if I should expect to get my straight razor to be anywhere near as sharp.

Input? should i rehone perhaps?