Every once in a while in the height of our hubris, the Almighty seems to come along and pimp slap us into humility. Fresh off my HHT triumph on Friday, I was dealt such a pimp slap this evening. The razor in question was a 5/8 Wade and Butcher wedge. This one was more wedge than I had ever encountered. The head on view looks like an isocoles triangle. And good grief what a complete PITA to get sharp. Per instructions on this very site, I double taped the spine and had at it. After a good couple hours I finally got it to pass the AHT (arm hair test) but I suspect I've probably got a lot of work to do before it's ready for a test shave. Maybe start the pyramid at 15 tomorrow and give it a test drive sometime next week. I'm kinda bent on test driving my other 3 razors this week as yesterday's shave (with the Fred Reynolds chopper) and today's shave (with the Imperial Extra Hollow Ground) were absolutely epic. I'm hoping someone will confirm that this difficulty with honing is the nature of the wedge beast although, given my limited honing experience it may just be me.