Thank you all for the tips and insights! I used the leather w/ CrOx that Randydance graciously gave me at our honing meetup. And it smoothed it up nicely but still lacked the smoothness. I ran it 100 extra light laps on my vintage coti and stropped it 100 laps. Tada!!!

Having shave tested the razor twice today, I was able to ATG and catch every stray stubble on my neck, and with a smoothness that I have only produced a few times.

it inspired me to hone another blade tonight. This was an Erik Anton Berg almost NOS. I tried to hone this months ago but stopped due to its great condition and my being new and not wanting to noob up a nice blade as thus. But the pictures and story of this honing is for a new thread. I will say though that the inspiration from that tough Torry followed over to this hard Sweadish steel. As a final note I will say that it too took some time but turned out even better, I think, will be a couple days before a shave test is possible.