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I thought I just tell you all about my first honing experience...

well I'm not sure if I succeeded but i havent got hair left on my arm for the armhair test..

This is just my third attempt to hone it since I cleaned it up a bit..

The first I just honed the DMT until The TPT was good on the whole edge.then went to the coticule..
This wasn't good enough for a smooth shave.. it shaved some bt it pulled and clearly wasnt sharp enough.

Then I followed the steps of Barts
atricle on the wiki A simple honing method with DMT-E , Belgian Blue Whetstone and Coticule - Straight Razor Place Wiki

this was a lot better but still not quite as sharp as the one Bart honed or the one I got from Don.

I guess I still wasnt done on the DMT so I went back to that until the hairs of my arm voluntarily came off as soon as the aura of the razor came close..

Now I hope that its some where close to shaveready.

By the way one thing nobody mentioned in any honing article is the nice smell of fresly honed steel!.. I love that smell..
I also bought a new hone.. another DMT the C/F combo... I think I need some ebay razors to practice on

I love it..

Maarten