I've just got this mentality that if I can't hone the thing, I shouldn't be able to shave with it.

Maybe it's a pride thing or something. But I know I want to keep using the SE to shave, so I might as well learn how to hone now. If anything else, it's giving me a lot of motivation to learn how to do it.

Now I just need to know what I need to do to do it.