Thread: Bizarre, disturbing honing experience

Progress, sort of. Yesterday i switched to a "known good gone" and relentlessly went after it. I did one round with a"sweeping" stroke as shown and shaved, then I styles it and did straight up down and shaved.

I used well over 100 strokes in both cases. I found the following. 1. In both cases the razor would shave right of the stone. Uncomfortably, but it would shave unlike in the original post.
2. Stropping, in both cases unsurprisingly made the shave much better, but still not comfortable.
3. Stropping on felt with Diamond spray improved the edge somewhat but it was still poor. Nor that using this same home and with jorco and dovo razors, this felt step always degrades the freshly honed edge and I only use it to eek out a little more time before honing.

I can't figure it. Is out possible the steel is just so much harder than a western blade that it just needs tons more strokes? When setting the bevel I noticed it took work, but getting it to burr wasn't an epic enterprise.

Two thoughts. One did you look at it with a loupe? Any chance you over honed it and the edge fell apart?