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To all - once again - thank you for your help and support. Nice to feel that you are not alone.

I was trying to focus on the technique as Carl mentioned - but I was very concerned as it looked...

good point - I bought the blade from Vintage Blades LLC - so I understand that it should have come to me in good shape. It did seem to work well - until my poor stropping caused an issue.

OK - to be clear - I am not using the metal on the stone to gauge the sharpness of the blade or to gauge the amount of honing i have done. But when it seems to take 100-200 strokes to get any kind...

Let's see
yes - the marks are completely removed - this has been done twice with several other attempts without the marks. I am fairly sure the stones are flat.
The surfaces do appear to be even...

Ok - I have done something wrong.

I have a relatively new Dovo Best quality - about 60 shaves.
I wanted to touch it up so I got a Norton 4000/8000 and Norton lapping stone. Had some success with...