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You are right, Leavitt and Pierce is primarily a smoke shop that sells shaving supplies, chess sets and other high end knick-knacks as a sideline. I have been buying pipe tobacco and pipes from them...

At this point I don't think it's going to hurt gsansom to attempt to get it honed by someone who knows what they are doing and take it from there. I bought the straight razor I use from the same...

The razor I use I bought from Leavitt and Pierce as well. I had it honed and prepped and it worked much better after that. The only other thing I note from your post is how many "passes" did you make...