Goodmorning James,
I spent an hour lastnight flatening my 3 hones and putting a bevel on all edges and went back to scratch on the razor.
Started with my coarse hone of about 1200/1500 grit to establish a bevel.This angle was about 6 to 7 degrees
Moved to my fine hone(no idea on grit but does an almost mirror polish) then onto the superfine hone.
This hone is a light maroon colour and feels like a Jasper to me(I'm a hobby Lapidary) which explains the hardness. 5"x2"x 1/4" thick.
Once again,no idea on the grit but it is very hard and extremely fine-my guess is that somewhere in the 4000
+ range.
Razor now shaves but a little rough.
I also visited an antique shop and picked up a dirt cheap French razor that was in pretty good nick.
Had to remove the pin and scales to clean up around that area and the handle.
Blade has some minor discolouration on it that I will have to polish out when I get a buff.
I honed this on the fine hone and shaved with it last night-a little rough but a big improvement on the non functional edge that was on it.
I will go back to the shop tonight and see if they have any 8k hones or antique hones in the shaving "junk" pile.
I have watched a few vids on youtube on razor use and use my shavette and get a fair result but not as quick as in the vids.
I make 2 or 3 passes as recomended in most of the vids but am real careful and slow around the nose.
I think that is just an experience think and the fact that the razor still scares the heck out of me.
Cheers John