Today I went for shave number three and it seems my happiness over sharpening my first razor was a little premature. It didnt seem nearly as sharp. I tried to use the omote side only but I was getting some pulling. I thought the razor had maybe dulled a bit so I checked using the ura on the other side of my face and it cut better but it still took quite a few passes to get all the whiskers. Once I found that it wasnt completely dull I went back to using the omote and really worked on the angles which seemed to help a little but I had a hard time getting the omote side to everywhere it needed to be. I ended up doing just a two pass shave, my face isnt nearly as smooth as last shave but still better than any cartridge shave I have ever had. The omote side is too much of a pain to use as the one and only side for me, next shave I am going back to the ura side. I am also going to pull out my hones and see if I can get this razor any sharper, i'm going to go until I can do the hanging hair test as demonstrated on one of the sharpening a japanese straight demos. I want to just have to raise the razor to my face and have all the whiskers just jump off out of fear. Off to the hones.