That seems to be the best reason as to why its so hard for me. I was able to work on a full hollow boker the other day with no problems, even got a pretty good shave off of it. But I have yet to hone a wedge, and from what I have heard they tend to be tougher to hone in general, even without previous spine wear from another owner. So I will keep away from it for a while.. a long while haha. Hopefully I can make it out to the SoCal meet, I should be able to get a lot of help from people there.