Will do randy. FYI, I broke out the old razor and microscope....believe I had a wire edge that kept breaking off so I back honed about 10 laps on the 4k and it seems to get rid of it. Then performed a simple pyramid starting a 55 then 35 15 15 15. When viewed under the scope it had a nice uniform bevel but I notice a bunch of dark spots in the freshly cut bevel. I think this is micro pitting. I noticed it before but didn't want to believe it I guess. I certainly don't see this on the dovo I just got back from lynn. Does it pretty much render that blade useless? No hope of a shave ready edge? I'm going start my shave tomorrow with it and see what happens. I think this might have been my main problem all along....