Thanks for all the input:D I have been honing away on my double duck and a newer acquisition of a wade & butcher to replace the one that someone honed improperly I posted in another thread.
Following all your advise, I wet my thumb an now definately feel a kind of dragging when i brush my thumb sideways across the width of the blade. before this, my thumb slid easily and tickled a little. Now it sort of catches.
I'll try one of the blades later this afternoon, before the USC-UCLA game.
Which I hope USC wins handilly. Then thay can knock off Ohio State:tu .