Okay so I am attempting my first restoration. The razor is a Beau Brummel 4/8. Not sure about the steel type. It says "wedge" on the tang, but I think I looks more like a 1/4 hollow. I didnt take the scales off because they were beautiful and I didn't want to ruin them. The blade was in pretty good shape. I did a few hours of hand sanding and am very satisfied with the results. Then the problems set in. I tried to set the bevel on a 1k King stone with water. I was getting pretty close using a rolling x because it has a slight smile. There was an area about an inch long that I could not get to pass the TNT for the life of me. After closer inspection I noticed that that area was slightly concave. I guess you could call it a slight frown in the middle of a slight smile? So I breadknifed it on the back side of the hone and started again. I have probably put easily 100 laps on this thing on the 1k after bread knifing and cannot get it even close to passing the TNT. I didn't tape the spine and I'm kinda regretting it now cause I'm putting some hone wear on it. At least it's even. So what am I doing wrong. Did I breadknife too much? Or do I just need to be patient and keep honing? My stone choices are King 1k and 6k and the norton 4k/8k. All freshly lapped. Im about to get a naniwa 10k or 12k for polishing too. Sorry This was such a long post. I tried to incorporate the whole scenario.