Update.
Major bummer!!

Last night I sat down with razor and hone with the mindset that I would be shaving with this razor "tonight". Well... didn't happen. And I admit that it was my ignorance that defeated me. I decided to give the 1/3 1/5 pyramid technique a whirl. On my first stroke with the 4k I hit a gritty spot on the stone about half way down and put a nick in the edge. DONE!!!!

Now before I get a "you have to lap a new stone" speech, I have already done that. But I will also admit that I only took .025" off the 4k side when I lapped it. Seems that the 4k side needs to have some more meat taken off and I need to start over with a bevel set. 1 step forward and 10 steps back. Now I seem to remember hearing from a certain someone that he recommends taking .125" off of the 4k side when new. I just couldn't bring myself to waste that much stone. Well talk about learning the hard way.

I felt defeated and beat down and had to resort to hair removal with my professionally honed razor.

But...... today is a new day.