Thread: chrox microchips

i have some chrox on balsa and i only do 6 reps no pressure and its putting visual chips on the edge, any ideas?

Bad Chrox!

Contamination, from "somewhere".

Bad balsa, anyway you can test the balsa by it self?

Is the razor sharpened as it should, could be a wire edge breaking off, that looks like chipping sometimes, the pieces from a wire edge can also mess with the edge and chip it.

Do you get scratches on the bevel / back?

You could polish a piece of steel and try on the paddle, like a spoon.

yeah maybe a wire edge...how do i get rid of that on a razor, i only know on a knife

You normally don't get it on razors but it happens, I've seen it mostly on stainless.

I strop on my hand, carefully, then I feel and see if the edge crumbles.

What's your razor, stones any pic?

Originally Posted by Lemur

You normally don't get it on razors but it happens, I've seen it mostly on stainless.

I strop on my hand, carefully, then I feel and see if the edge crumbles.

What's your razor, stones any pic?

i dont have pics, i have a thiers issard, maybe it isnt a wire edge. this is the chrox i used

3oz. Chromium Oxide Semi-Paste, Twist Cap

its pretty liquidy i sand down the balsa but after i put that on the balsa looks rough.

Water makes the fibers in the wood rise... that could be it!

so what could be the way around this?

Find something else to put the chrox on, or put a litte in a shot glass, let it dry and then smear it out on a new sanded piece of balsa.
Now your razor probably needs a little time on the stones to get in shape again.

It's hard to imagine how crox on balsa could cause chips unless the wood is contaminated with coarse particles from the sanding process. (It's possible that you have some "bad" crox, I suppose, but that's unlikely.) As Lemur suggested, look for scratches in the bevel that were not there before the crox stropping.

OTOH, Lemur might have nailed it with this:

Is the razor sharpened as it should, could be a wire edge breaking off, that looks like chipping sometimes, the pieces from a wire edge can also mess with the edge and chip it.

You may have a rolled/wire edge from using too much pressure while honing. Knife people sometimes do this since what is light pressure for sharpening a knife can be far too much for razors.



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