So, I certainly need to send my razor in for professional honing. But since I've already butched my razor from trying to hone it myself, I figure that I might as well try again with some assistance while I'm still looking for a professional in town. I've done some reading on setting the bevel and sharpening, and though I'm sure there's still much I don't know, the thing that's giving me the most trouble is an incongruency across the blade. What I mean is, this: the middle portion of the blade becomes sharper(determined by arm hair test) than both the heel and point area. Also, though this may not be an issue, if I put the blade straight up with the edge facing down, the point and heel area are slightly raised so as to not touch the ground though the middle does. But this may be the design of all straight razors. My razor is a square type by the way. This also may go along with the first thing I mentioned, but I did a magic marker test, and the middle portion gets shaved off with fewer strokes than the point and heel. I tried to fix this by simply sharpening just the point and heel(bit more difficult) but I either didn't do it long enough or I messed up in some other way. If I can just solve this problem, than I think I can handle the rest. Sort of, I'm still not sure how I am supposed to know when I have the best bevel set, is it dependent on how well it passes the arm-hair test? Anyway, any advice and instruction would be greatly appreciated. Oh and, I have two nortion water stones: a 250/1000 grit and a 4000/8000 grit.