Hey all,

I got an ebay special to practice honing on (it's an old Palmer House Chicago, I guess these are either from the Palmer House Barber shop or maybe provided for guests) and it was actually in pretty good shape.

However after looking at it through my new Radioshack microscope (which I have to say I'm pretty pleased with) I noticed a jagged bit towards the toe. It was almost invisible to the naked eye, but looked pretty ugly under magnification.

So I went to the Norton 1k and did God knows how many circles and x's, and it did't seem to make a dent. I went ahead and moved to the DMT 325 (the spine was taped) and, again, it seemed like it took several hundred (maybe over a thousand) circles and passes to get it to where it was still there, but more like little hills and valleys instead of jaggs. It was then I lost patience and just moved up through the stones and shaved with it.

It shaved very nice, and I was very proud of myself, but I looked here at SRP and searched micro-chip removal and was amazed to see that others were getting them off with just a few circles on the 4k. What on earth am I doing wrong that it took me so much work on the 325? I seemed to be making good contact with the blade, and the blade doesn't seem warped at all, so I just can't figure it out.