You said that you had the blade honed locally but it made no difference to the tugging and catching during the shaving. Did you strop the razor before you used your freshly honed razor? If you did you may have dulled the razor first go on the strop. I would shave with a freshly honed razor without stropping it first. If it shaves well without stropping and on the second shave it is duller after stropping you have your answer.

Bob