Thanks, that made sense.

I went ahead and flattened my stone, wow, they were not even close to flat. I put pencil marks on then and the middle of the stone cut long before I finally got the edges to start getting cut. I went ahead and honed a razor using the pyramid system and then went for a test shave. The first 1/4 of the blade would not cut hair but the back 3/4 as good a job as my working razor so I was pretty happy. Any thoughts as to why the first 1/4 of the blade did not sharpen? Could the stone not be flat or was I not holding the razor evenly on the stone? It's possible that part of the razor simply needs more work but I am more inclined to chalk it up to an error on my part.