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I went for the 60 passes on the 80k then a strop, and preliminary results are promising. It's still not nearly as nice as the first couple of shaves I had on it, though. Am I just doomed to not...

Oh, thanks, but the nick has already been completely worked flat. There is only the slightest of valleys, in plane, on the edge. Since I worked it out I have tried to hone the blade using a...

This is the post I put here. The little nick is mostly worked out at this point.

That's what I was afraid of. I'm not going to do any long-term damage to my straight by using the hone a bunch, right? That is, assuming that I'm not putting tons of pressure on the blade--which I...

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When I first got my straight, a DOVO, off of SRP it came with a strop and a Norton 4k/8k. It was shave ready it shaved like a dream. Several weeks later, though, I discovered that it...