The last couple of full and half hollows I've honed have had this problem. They are extremely sharp. Enough to where they easily cut the tops off the fine hairs on my arm but when I go to shave with them they aren't very smooth. After the third or so shave they felt like a dream. The two razors of mine that had this problem recently are my Tennis and Dovo I just honed a week or so ago. All is well that ends well, right? Well I'm a bit curious about what causes such harshness off the hones. My progression is Norton 4k/8k, Naniwa 12k, and finally CrOx before stropping on linen and horse hide. I use Lynn's circle method on the Norton and about 10 strokes both ways on the Naniwa. After that I do about five strokes both way on the CrOx. Finally doing 20 strokes on linen and 60 on leather. Is there something that I'm doing wrong? Like I stated before, after multiple shaves they became very smooth. So I'm not too concerned about it. Just curious really if this is common and would like to absorb any knowledge you guys could lend me here. Thanks!