Please dont let what I am about to write discourage you and I am glad you posted pics so we can see, I just feel that I have to be honest about how I feel.

First off....man I envy you with all that side and back hair !!!! but with that being said, I personally think you went overboard with density, you could have gotten by with alot less hair. I am going to take into account that since you ordered a stock piece that you were limited to what John had as far as his standard density and the A contour that his stock pieces are.

My suggestion to you would be to order a custom piece with less density and more along the lines of a CC contour front with a graduated staggered hairline, which in my opinion would have made your wearing of hair as close to having real hair as you can get, that is what having thick sides and back hair can do.

If you look at pictures 4 and 5 for front view and more importantly the 7th pic they are saying to me 80s and 90s hairwearing era .......to wiggy, or plain and simply to thick if you get my drift, and the last picture showing the back of your head, even with picture not being HD, you can see that the density or the blending in is not right.

When you applied stock unit all you did was shave all the thin area out and you customized the stock piece to fit the hairloss area right?

One more thing and I cannot say it enough, if you are going to want the best hairline possible you will not get it with tape period, you are doing the right thing by getting ORWG or whatevever glue you find to your liking.