Welcome to SRP. There is a wealth of useful information here and plenty of old hands to give advice BUT, you are pretty much asking an open ended question without giving enough information. How did the razors do prior to you honing them? Did you try to freshen the edges with a paste on strop before honing them? If so, how well did they shave? What is your routine when honing razors (if you have developed one)? Did you reset the bevel, and if so how did you do it? There are to many holes that need to be filled before we can give any reasonable answers without speculation The HHT is not the end all be all of tests as you have found out already, the ultimate being the shave test.