Maybe it's me, but recently it seems like my TI is getting dull (or misaligned) way before the shave is finished. It's a singing 7/8 carbon steel and my Dovo is a stainless 5/8. They both pass the hanging hair test each time I hone, but I always get less irritation with the Dovo. I think the TI is getting worse DURING the shave. Maybe the edge is getting beat up on the tree trunks around my chin. It starts out OK but irritates something fierce by the time I'm done with my second pass. Let alone the third. The Dovo seems smooth throughout the shave. Is the INOX holding the edge where the TI carbon is not? I know the chromium content in a stainless makes an inherently harder steel, but that same ingredient also makes it impossible to take as sharp of an edge (microscopic brittleness), nor as easily. Thoughts?