So last night I was bound and determined to get a real edge on the AOS TI that I bought as my first straight a month ago. I yanked my hair out with it one time and it has not been on my face since. I got one with a fairly bad factory edge as in uneven on the spine. I must have done 1000 circles on the 1k trying to straighten it out. It still is not perfect but much closer.

Last night I experimented with speed and pressure/torque on the hone and finally found the deep spot. After a couple hours of playing it very suddenly became sharp. It needs just a touch of refining next time to even the spine/bevel a bit more but it passed the HHT for the very first time. I have never been able to even scratch a hanging hair with it in the past and now it was passing it before the CrO strop.

Shaved with it this morning and it went from the worst $100 I ever spent to the best. The weight of the blade needed little encouragement to go the direction I intended with no wandering on my face.

The steel is incredibly hard on this thing and cuts extremely slow on the super stones but WOW what an edge now that it is there!

I have to thank everyone for the tips they gave. I had been using an old Lyon Brand spike point blade for the last couple months but it may have lost it's spot as my favorite.