Thread: Hard stee, high grit

I’ve recently honed three razors that all have stubbornly hard steel. Two TIs and a Friodur 72- v. When honing them they all exhibit the same reactions. You cut a bevel on a 1k and think you’re finally off to the races. As you clean them up on the higher grits, the edge just seems to crumble away. Suddenly you seem to be back where you started with either no bevel or a half ass one. So I go back down and up again. The cycle repeats. What I find is that these don’t appreciate the low grit stones. If I reset the crumbled edge with 8k slurry and simply put more laps in at 8, 12, and 20k the edge holds. Typically I do about five laps on the 12k. With a hard steel that is giving me this trouble I’ll easily do 30. Has anyone else found the more work on the high grits to be the answer to difficult, hard steel?