I got my Silverwing from TI back when Lynn was honing for Classic. I have used it four of five shaves and I've not had to touch it up yet. I understand that TI went to using the same steel as the Silverwing in all of their razors so the one I just got from Steve is probably the same stuff. IME having a half dozen older TIs they weren't the easiest to hone up with the old silver steel. Maybe the lead hardning or whatever but once there they were all darn good shavers. For me anyway.