Quote Originally Posted by Oglethorpe View Post

As a side note -- I do have a FR that I just got (see my show and tell thread) that shaved so wonderfully that I can't span my opinion to all of Sheffield
I've had a bunch of FR's too, and they seemed to have very hard steel and were a serious PITA to hone - and I don't mean just because a lot of steel had to come off; honing was a very slow process. I would expect a harder steel to hold an edge longer, so that's probably what you're experiencing there.