Quote Originally Posted by puketui41 View Post
I'm in the same boat. I've honed my share of razors and only have trouble with wedges and 1/4 grinds. I have one that i've managed to get to a level I'm happy with, but the other two, I've checked the bevel, reset the bevel, tried dropping back down to 8000# for twenty strokes then re-polish, then drop down to 8000# and re-polish testing each time to see if there's any improvement. I've tried slurry, pasted strops, less stropping pressure, more stropping pressure, you name it. I always seem to end up at the same place: a sharp razor with what in my experience is a well developed and polished edge that just doesn't shave as well as hollow razors
Humble retraction. I started thinking about what I posted here(probably should have thought before I posted), if one near wedge gives a good shave, why not the others? So I pulled out one of my old nemeses today and had another crack. Turns out it was the bevel after all, just not quite set. Learning every day.