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All you will need to do, for a very long time, will be to just hone it as needed. Finisher only. If you run the 3 stage lapped and pasted balsa progression and take it to the .1u level, then you...

Gold Dollar sells a lot of unbranded or custom branded blades. They are all made in their Ningbo factory. In fact I just ordered 100 of the P81 blades, unmarked, no scales, direct from the factory....

What brand/model is that? Euclid is right. In general, Chinese razors are not very good for learning to hone on. You really need to get a handle on honing in general before tackling them. Their only...

Doesn't have to be perpendicular. Not good to have them parallel, but anything in between is fine. In fact sometimes having different stage scratches at different angles helps in telling them apart,...

Yeah. Forget it. I forgot you were using tape. Just go until the bevel setting scratches are completely gone, and sharpness has increased and then ceased increasing. You will possibly notice a...

Does the entire length of the edge shave arm hair easily?

If it does that, and you can see no visual indications as mentioned, then step up into your progression. Just normal alternating laps, x...

Are you putting pressure in the middle of the blade? Remember that a razor flexes a lot, considering the small scale of things we are dealing with.

Could be that your stones are humped along the...

Right on. Most common beginner mistake is, "It MUST be set by now. I did X many laps on the bevel setter."

The upswept toe is common. Usually that results from a tiny upsweep being overcorrected by an enthusiastic honer with the rolling x stroke. Sometimes it is done deliberately to render the point...

I forgot to mention that wedge razors are almost always honed with tape. Typically the bevel is set and the progression is ran with one or sometimes two layers of tape, and then an additional piece...

On the second razor, it looks like you tried to take a smiling wedge and hone it flat and straight. That is usually not a good idea. Before you do another one like that, work on your rolling x...