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I just sanded with 280 grit until it was clean and I liked the look of it, then jumped straight to 600, then 1000 and that's all. The black marks in the hollows are always the hardest to remove so I...

Yeah, I realised I should have been using wet and dry after I had already been going for a while. I just honestly didn't expect it to take so long. Like I said, extra terrestrial steel in this one. ...

Weeeelllll... Maybe a slight exaggeration. But it was a surprisingly long time. And now the side of my 800 hone has some serious furrows. I guess I took off between 1 and 2mm. It was butter knife...

I think the 15 minutes of bread knifing might have helped. God knows, it made making the new bevel a chore.

Update: I am currently sporting an awesome BBS shave and a great big smile.

The razor performed flawlessly and went through my 2 1/2 day growth like, well, like a newly honed razor.

It was a...

Yeah, I consulted Oz before I started honing and he laughed his butt off at my questions which concerned "preserving the pitting". :p

People that know me know that I like a challenge. Sometimes to the point of a ridiculous, foolish and unnecessarily difficult challenge.

The fact is, if something is easy I generally get bored...