Greetings,

I am on my first restore, and now my first honing. However long I honed this razor on the 1k, there remained a 1/3 inch at the heel that didn't even seem to touch the hone, while the spine above the heel kept shedding metal.

I thought my DMT would do the trick of removing enough metal for the whole length of the blade to touch the hone and hence get honed, but the same problem remains.

There's also a 1/4 inch at the tip that isn't honed, but the blade smiles sliightly, so there's an explanation for that part.

Thanks for any input,

Fred