I recently had a rather tuggy razor, and I was advised to give it a go on my barber hone. I did, and I got some very good results. I had another razor in similar condition, and tried the same. This time, the razor grated and scritched, and the resulting shave was pretty bad...and then, when I cleaned the hone (I used lather on the hone) I found some pits...NEW pits.

The razor had had a few small pits on it when I got it, and I sanded these away in lapping the hone. Now there were ones in new places, and I'm thinking this means the hone is starting to deteriorate. I guess the material that had been inthese pits is what had caused the gritting and damaged the edge on my razor.

I hope I'm wrong.