Just... can't stop... honing...
OK, slight exaggeration as I've only honed three times, but then that is in three days!
First time I honed my Dovo on Norton 4/8 it made a lot of difference and I got a good shave from it. But I was convinced it should be sharper. So I set to it the next night. Well, I must have overhoned because my face was a mess. It pretty much scraped and plucked my hairs out.
That was depressing. Nearly put me off. But I had another go at honing the next night, and was a lot more conservative in the pyramid. Outcome: now I understand what it is when people say "like a hot knife through butter"!
I've decided to leave it now. Have ordered a TI 4/8 from Classicshaving with Lynn to hone and I'm not going near the stones until I can feel what a properly honed edge is like.
But it got me thinking... honing is such a therapeutic thing. But you just can't keep doing it to the same blade. So maaayyybeee that's why some of you guys buy so many straights to fix up? :w