Thanks charlie. Means a lot, coming from you.

I feel that I am finally starting to not suck at making blades. I still make mistakes, but I can usually make it work.
The more razors I make, the more I learn that not just anything goes. The features and properties of a razor are like little objects hanging together with bits of string. If you pull on this bit over here, the other bit over there has to move a little in relation to the 3d bit on the other side. Making notches and divots and pointy bits is easy. Putting them in the right spot is the hard part.

Anything with a sharp edge will shave, but having everything in the right place will make the whole a lot better. And I've also found that if you do all the steps, from forging to honing, you learn better how decisions in one part of the process affect the results of the next steps in the process.