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Stretching will help. Download Lynn's shaving video as it's an EXCELLENT tutorial on SE-shaving.

By lapping it, which you should have done before starting to hone. Once you lap it it's ok for the hone to have SOME metal particles as long as it's not oversaturated with'em, when you have to lap it...

You will need a hone with the same grits but some come cheaper than Norton. I used Japanese slipstones that cost me like $35 gst+pst inc. before I got the Norton. They were perfectly fine but Norton...

I'm glad you enjoyed it even with a dull blade. Norton is a great start but you should also get a 2-sided paddle strop with 1.0 and 0.5 micron pastes to get your blade extra sharp. You could also go...