Thread: Restoration

I have just finished my first ever attempt honing a straight razor. In hindsight, I should've taken a "before" picture for comparison, but it's too late now.

The edge, under 20x magnification, looks like a clean, straight-edged mirror; and, the blade cuts easier than anything I've used before. I shaved afterward with it, and though it does indeed cut very easily, is it possible I've made it too sharp? My face hasn't been this irritated in months (since being much closer to newbie-hood). Or, could it be that I've become accustomed to my much more flexible Bismarck, and this one is just too rigid for my technique?

Stone progression was Norton: 220 (to grind out a huge chip), 1k, 4k, 8k, a Shapton 12k, a couple dozen laps on the chromium oxide-embedded webbing, and a hundred laps on the latigo.

Rich