I'm still new, I've been at this not much over six months. It took me weeks of near-daily trying to get my first decent shaving edge. I haven't had too much trouble getting one on any razor, junk or nice, since it "clicked" with me. Until now.

For about the past 6 weeks, I'd basically stopped honing, focusing very successfully on learning proper stropping and maintaining the favorite already-honed razors I use. Then I recently bought a new prized very-high-grit polishing stone, and managed to dull several of these same favorite razors with it, due to inexperience. OK, no big deal - just go back to the old hones, get an edge, and work back up.

But now I seem unable to get a shaving edge on *any* of these razors, using *any* of my old hones. It's not an equipment or razor issue - I've gotten killer edges on these same razors, with these same old hones before. It's me.

Has this happened to anybody else? Please tell me this is just a passing newbie thing, I'm starting to panic a bit. I still have some well-honed "second-string" razors to fall back on, so I can still get a decent shave. It isn't the end of the world or anything, but it's pretty humiliating.