Hello guys,

I was able to restore the razor to shave-ready this morning. What I did was I decided to go back to the DMT and this time rather than having a straight line on the edge of the razor, take a little bit off the heel and the toe so that it looks more like a smile. Then I spent a lot of time on the DMT only trying to get a bevel. I only used two layers of tape, since I decided to not use any tape this time around. The reason for not using tape was because of what gssixgun said about the spine, I wanted to make sure it was even. Another reason was that when I was before trying to do the arm hair test, I felt like I needed to set the blade at a 60 degree angle against my skin in order for it to cut, so the bevel felt strangely unnatural to me. When I was done with the DMT, I could definetly see an edge an was popping a bit of arm hair too.

With the Naniwas, I made extensive use of the magic marker test in order to make sure I was catching the heel and the toe, since I made the blade something like a smiling blade. At times, I needed to do something close to a rolling x-stroke in order to catch the very bottom of the heel and very top of the toe. I believe I actually might have a microbevel going on at the tip of the heel and the toe, since when I apply pressure, the very tip is still black from the magic marker.

Anyways, I think my mistake is I didn't spend more time on the DMT trying to etch in a prebevel. Also, I found that for that razor I did not require tape when going to the Naniwas. I dont think I need to go back and grind into the spine do I? Maybe that is why I ended up creating a microbevel at the tips of the heel and the toe, because the spine wasnt exactly even, but I dont use those points of the edge much in my shaving routine. At this point, Im kinda scared to go back to the DMT and mess it up, since it is very exciting to to finally have a shaving edge!