I've been lurking for a while and this isn't my first post but near enough...

Been DE shaving for many years but took the plunge for a SR a few months back - a ⅝ round point from Ralf Aust. Didn't do too badly with it but felt I'd made myself a butter knife so had my first go at honing tonight - such a difference to the shave afterwards - not quite up to my DE shave results but there's hope. I'm certainly no hone expert but took my time with 3k / 8k / 12k / SRD strop and got a lot better edge for shaving. I obviously need to keep experimenting with numbers of passes on each hone but it's a start.

BTW, is it me or have some RA razors 'uneven' bevels? It seems like I've more bevel on one side than the other and this is before I honed it... I haven't got a high strength glass to check whether it's offset from centre but I'm looking at the relative chamfer sizes with my Swiss army knife magnifier ;-) I don't want to take a ton of material off with a coarse hone just to start again if it shaves OK - it just looks funny...

Cheers,

Andy