I understand what you are saying but unless Will assessed your razors, you are still lacking one experience, which is a known well-honed razor. I'm not trying to argue with you but I do know that a lot of people here thought they had good edges until they experienced a better edge.

I was one of them.

I honed my own razors for about 5 years with just a couple of barber hones and shaved with them and thought all was fine. Then I found SRP, experimented with a lot of hones, and have been improving my honing still to this day. The edges I was able to produce a year after joining SRP were way better than what I knew was possible before. I continue to learn and improve my technique and know full well that my most of edges are a lot better than they were 5 years ago.

If nothing else, I hope that you can find an opportunity to attend a meet-up some time where you can see and learn a lot more in person.

Finally, as a point of reference, this is a video I made of a factory edge. Some consider this to be a shave-able edge, but I guarantee that even if it can remove whiskers, it is not even close to its full potential as a shaver.