I love the shaves from my Hart razors. It's a daily Hart Steel straight razor shave for me. I always liked the Le Grelot and Wade and Butcher 1/4 grounds, so I must just be a 1/4 ground fan. I too reset the edges from the taped angle, for ease of maintenance. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the factory edge, just a preference in maintenance.

I was so scared to hone my first Hart Steel that I used it for many months just stropping carefully and it did great. I took a deep breath when I finally did take the hones to it, but it all worked out well with help from this forum's extensive archives. For some reason honing an old Wade and Butcher or Le Grelot didn't make me nervous in that way. They are all great straight razors, so it doesn't really make sense, but so it was.