Quote Originally Posted by RezDog View Post
The shape of the edge is a smirk, that better than straight. Razors only went to straight edges to get high production thin ground razors. Historically, pre hollow grinding machines, every razor had a smile, some thinner grinds than others. The smile or smirk is the better shaving edge. The goal is to get it shaving along the full edge, while maintaining the smirk of the razor. Sure you could grind it straight, but that will be a lesser shaving razor. I always try to gently hone towards a smirk, even if I start with a straight edge. The straighter the edge, the less it will smirk, but the closest thing to a frown is a straight edge.
By even it out I don't mean remove the smile, I mean just get the wear to a relatively even depth across the razor. For some reason there is almost no wear near on the spine near the tang, and almost 2mm of wear near the toe, which seems like it would cause the edge to be super uneven. Even with a smile, if this razor was correctly honed previously, it should still have relatively even wear, should it not? Is it normal for razors to have almost no wear in some places of the spine?

Quote Originally Posted by Euclid440 View Post
The heel is keeping the edge off the stone. If you correct the heel, the razor will sit better on the stone and the amount of “roll” needed may be very slight. The spine was not that cooked, the heel is the problem.

Correct the heel, then mark the spine, stabilizer, and edge with colored sharpie, do a few laps on a high grit stone and see where you are making contact.

Then adjust your stroke to hone the whole edge. You will need at least 2 layers of tape to make up for spine wear.

You hone how the razor dictates. What you have now, is a perfect example of doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
The heel is part of the edge is it not? I'm not sure what you mean by the heel keeping the edge from sitting flat. The heel indeed does look terrible on this razor but I don't understand how it would mechanically cause it to sit unevenly, unless it is blatantly tilted in one direction.