I have a fillie #13 Inox. I got it in a lot and it wasn't at Fillie prices, so I thought I got lucky. I was wrong.

The blade had a small chip in it, near the center. No big deal, small chips can be honed out. Then I noticed that for a length of about 1/4 inche cenetered around the chip, the edge was kind of jagged and broken...kind of like a meteor crater: Hole in the middle, rubble around the outside.

So anyway, I taped the spine and hit the 400 diamond plate. Before too long, the chip was gone...but the jagged, broken part wasnt.

Weird, right? So I gave it a few more passes, and the bevel was STILL broken there. I checked under magnification, and it was completely borked at that spot.

Back to the hones...and it just continued. I ran into Lynn in chat, got some honing advice, and tried it. I got the edge th where it wasn't too bad, thinking I had beat it, when I checked under the scope again--this time, I held the razor at a lot of different angles...and there it was. Around that spot with the crumbling edge, the steel was all speckled and sparkly--like it was breaking off roughly instead of wearing smoothly on the hone. Behond that spot, on the surface of the blade, it's all scratched form the steel bits coming loose and going crazy in the water.

A defective blade.
So I figured, I have two choices--pitch it, or hone past it. I chose hone past it. So all day, I7ve been honing at that razor. The spot has gotten smaller--it's down to about 1/8 an inch now, but it's still there. It's weak enough that when I press the bevel with my thumbnail, the steel just pops out like a cookie cutter. I've taken at least 1/8 off the blade so far...

So should I keep at it? Is it worth it? Do you think I'll get past it?