Exciting day, my freshly honed razors arrived in the mail! Now a question...

Here's how the shave went with my Dovo fresh from the hones.

After the shave, I did my usual alum rub, and little to no sting at all! Amazing. I'm guessing that's due to the extra keen edge it has.

However, I do notice that the shave isn't as close as the Dovo was prehoning. Does it take a few shaves for a honed razor to "break in"? Or is it more likely that I was subconsciously paranoid of an extra sharp razor and my method was different? I don't feel that I did anything out of the ordinary, but a mind can play tricks on your muscle memory at times too.

Kind of stumped on this. I don't doubt the sharpness of the razor, but this is the first time I've had it rejoined by SRD, so I don't really have any experience to compare it to.