Lynn honed my first razor, almost immediately I destroyed the edge. I don't know how I did it, but being a newb it could have been a hundred different things. Anyway. My three weeks were awful, and I was thinking my inexperience was the problem. It was btw. But my edge was destroyed as well. My shaves improved exponentially when I followed advice from earcutter and mapped my beard, and secondly by trying a different razor. Now I have two good razors in rotation and a reference razor that I use once a month.