I have a Nate's Straight that i have managed somehow to chip on two separate occasions. The first got honed out by the maker (who since seems to have gotten out of business from what I can see.)

I now have another significant chip and am wondering if it's worth sending it off to be honed, or is there a possibility that the steel is somehow defective? In neither case can I identify anything I did to cause the chip, nor have i ever chipped my other razor (Dovo Bismarck). So i am thinking it's a steel problem rather than me having somehow causing these two chips without realizing it.

Probably hard to answer my question, but here goes anyway.