Rookie mistake leads to STAIN
I had a bit of a mishap last night and I thought I'd share it with everyone in order to hopefully save someone else the pain of what I just did. A bunch of my razors were starting to pull and so I thought I'd get a little assembly line going and give them all a touch up on my barber's hone. Had them all lined up on a towel so I could go from one razor to the next, and save some time and effort. All was going great until I didn't DRY THE RAZORS OFF after I honed them - I wanted to hone all the razors, then dry them all, then put them away. Well I realized my oversight when I noticed a little white mark forming on one of my best blades, which was a spot of dried (hard) water, underneath which was a BLACK STAIN.
Not the end of the world, but it's one of my nicest looking razors and it was a real pain to have to learn that lesson the hard way. So, to all the other honing rookies out there: ALWAYS DRY YOUR RAZOR IMMEDIATELY AFTER YOU HONE!