Originally Posted by
Euclid440
Looks more like edge flashing, flashing is a piece of a thin burr or foil edge. It could be from too much pressure or too may laps on one side.
As you hone one side of the bevel the other rolls up ever so slightly, if you flip the razor and hone the other side you cut off the burr or at least straighten it out.
Thin hollow ground razors flex with pressure and you hone the back of the bevel and not the edge. Then if you use less pressure and now are honing the edge and it can get very thin and make a thin foil edge or flashing.
Just Joint the edge and cut it off completely and make a straight edge. Then hone to the straight edge,
If you want to max out the 1k edge, joint the edge and reset it, (10-20) laps. Joint it again, one lite stroke and reset with very lite pressure. You will see the edge get straighter and with fewer chips.
You can get a very straight, chip free edge on a 1k by jointing and resetting the edge a few times. Joint on the corner of the edge of the stone, you will feel any chips if you do a lite slow stroke. If you feel a chip, you will have to hone past the depth of the largest chip, so the steel has to come off one way or another. Cut it off and start with a straight edge.
If you strop the edge on Flax, Linen or a pasted strop then remove the 1k stria with the 4k, you will get a very straight and smooth 4k edge.
So I started gradually reducing torque and checked the edge every 50 or so laps and threw a few circles i
How many laps did you do, it is possible to do too many laps and make the edge so thin you create a foil edge. At 1k you just want to get the bevels flat and meeting.