Got my hones and got my razor :-)
Well, I know you say not to hone before you shaved for a couple of months. But I want to practice honing while Bart's lesson is still fresh in my memory so I went out and got a coticule + BBW.
Now, I refer to this thread: http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...cs-inside.html
This is the razor I got on the very cheap side of life, and much to my surprize it's actualy a very nice razor. It has the same size as my dovo yet weighs much heavier, I am looking forward to shaving this in 2010 when I get this honed :P
Anyhow, as mentioned in that thread, the razor does indeed have a slight frown, which I try to get out of it. I do not have a really rough stone to do the breadknifing move (I think it would just cut through the coticule a little bit and damage the hone) so I am pondering the question 'how to turn that frown upside down'. I wouldn't mind a slight smile at all, but the frown is not something I want to keep. No clue if I can hone that away with those two stones, but it never hurts to ask. Other then that, the blade is extremely dull, mostly because of me because at the start (before I attempted a breadknifer) it 'stuck' in some places.
Oh and I found out some history on the razor, it's apparently rather old as it belonged to a father (the kind that lives for the church) and the guy thinks he might have actually received it from his dad, but I doubt that, the razor looks too good for that (but damn someone honed it like a maniac!)