Thread: Something silly...

I clonked the tip of my razor on the sink, nothing hard and a visual inspection shows no damage but running the thumb along the blade proves there is a 'deviation' there and if you run cotton wool along it it will pull out a piece.

I am thinking it's now out of action as I don't fancy the same problem that grasps the cotton wool getting hold of my skin...

What course of action do I take?

Send to a honemeister to hone the defect off?
Grasp the nettle and attempt it myself on the Norton?
Buy another and wait until my honing ability can cope?

I did run the edge over the linen side of the strop to see if I could straighten the edge but used no pressure and the noise put me off immediately! It's amazing that something that's virtually invisible can be so obvious with a tactile inspection...

As ever gents all help gratefully accepted!!!

I might try taking the 4k side of the Norton and doing a set of 20 small circles on each side of the blade and then a small pyramid and testing the edge again.

Its out of action. What you do is up to you. As advice from a far I would do numbers 1 and 3. But then again I don't know what a nettle is. :-)

I'm with steve. Keep the pressure even along the edge to maintain a constant bevel all the way down.

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I would get a magnifier and see what I was dealing with before I started honing away. With at least 35x if you can't see any defect in the edge there is probably another problem. If you can see a problem depending on what it is and how large it is and depending on your honing abilities you can either do some appropriate honing or send it out.

I could be wrong but it sounds like your dealing with a hairline crack.
I would follow thebigspenders advice!!
if you have some liquid ink available you could pour a little on your blade and then wipe it off. If there is a crack the ink will remain in the crack and the crack will be more noticeable under magnification!!