Hey guys.

I've been trying some new things on my poor Bismark - I recently acquired the Shapton Glass 10K and I'm loving it. I'm skipping the 16K right now. I had a conversation with Harrelson Stanley and when I asked him about the chipping the 16K caused, he said the binding was a little harder for that particular stone, which could cause micro chipping. The conversation was brought on because of a video discussing the same chipping of razors caused by the 16K.

So I went Glass 4K, 8K 10K. Everything looked really good under the scope (and felt great on my face) and then tried one more piece of tape to get the micro bevel at 30K. with just 5 strokes, there was a nasty edge that was full of micro chips.

So I took off the extra tape and reset the bevel with the same 4K, 8K, 10K, and then made 3 strokes on the 30K. It looked like if I had gone one more stroke, it would've started to break up the edge. After some good stropping, the edge is straight and intact, but I don't know how it will hold up under a shave.

This was my first experience with the 30K doing this. Now I know my poor Bismark should probably be retired, but I'm wondering if I was simply on the verge of over honing, or is there something to the metal that just doesn't like to be honed past a certain point?

Thanks!