rattler rehone, (ZG content)
Apparently in a rush to get the big fat hollow blade to my face, I didn't achieve a complete bevel set despite the razor passing pre-shave testing no probs.
SO in the test shave it started out great, but the edge "faded" and lost its sharpness mid-shave. This is failure (and another reason WHY HHT (or any other) can be useless to determine shave-worthiness of an razor's final edge), and so I wiped it down and grabbed another blade to finish up.
This time i re-worked it on the 4k/8k, then to 12k Naniwa* for a handful of laps, then to the ZG slurried for 50-ish working down to water. stropped.
Test shave #2, brilliantly sharp first pass. Then a little Cerium Oxide powered stropping brought up the smoothness for the second pass and clean ups. I'm really happy with the edge now.
I only sharp-tested the Wester Bro, and it's "there". And went through that same sequence of rocks. Full shave test for it next.
*it does appear that these are back in stock at SRD (but not the 1k Chosera)