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Joe is right. I had a blade that I could not get to hold an edge let alone shave well. I honed it one day starting with the 220 grit, 1000 grit, 4000 grit, 8000 grit, 12000 grit doing 20 round...

There is the REMOTE possibility that you are not reaching the very edge with the hone. I had a razor where the geometry of the edge did not allow the hone to reach the very edge. It was coming...