I'm a a newbie to this forum so please pardon me if I'm not posting this in the correct place or fashion but I've got kind of an urgent question.

I've been shaving with a straight razor for some time (Thiers Issard Spartacus 7/8). This shaved great right out of the box and was re-honed professionally only once in the past 5 years or so. Recently I purchased a few new razors (Henckels 8/8 and Mastro Livi 8/8) and neither shaved as well as the my original TI so, after watching Lynn's CD I tried to hone them myself on a Norton 4000/8000 using the suggested 3/3, 1/3, 1/5 progression and now they shave worse than they did originally. They barely cut the whiskers and I suspect I've overhoned. How does one correct this?