Sometimes gents, honing can be a SOOTHING process. So after you have cursed the retailer, the brand and yourself, for being the idiot who bought it, Every few days, when you are bored, try the pyramid, or the progression method, throw in the Japanese method, and if you are really...I mean really down, watch a Murray Carter video. If you still can't get a shaving razor....go back to the start....Bit like putting in golf, if you played 18 holes and had 40 putts, most of the time the putter stays in the bag....but there are known occasions when the putter ends up in the lake, on a filfthy day the whole bag ends up wet. So if you bought a g & f recently accept that you will get to know it well over the coming weeks, or it's in the lake OR you are!