How bad are the chips ? Can they be seen with the naked eye ? If you have a coarser grit hone you might work on it with that. I've gone down to a Norton 220 or a DMT325 for really deep chips. One layer of electrical tape until they are out and move up to the 1k and maybe 1 layer beyond that until I get the scratches out. Another thing for really bad ones that I learned from Lynn is honing with the spine slightly off of the hone until the chips are cleaned up.... on a really bad one I mean.