Originally Posted by
cassady
Like XMan said, I've encountered a razor where it just kept microchipping. I couldn't figure out why it it wouldn't take a sharpening until I bought one of those radio shack magnified loupes. I'd see the microchipping, hone it, get more chips. I tried to do feather light strokes on a higher stone to no effect.
I kept wondering if it got de-tempered (if that's a word), or if something happened to the steel to crystallize it or something. Maybe it was just age and deteriation. It was an ebay cheapie (not a Pakistan razor), so I just tossed it into the mug with the other troubled citizens of my collection in the hopes of someday solving the puzzle.
cass