Trouble honing ended with a simple solution.

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So I pickup a hollow ground 17/16 el&co off the bay and it arrived with the edge in pretty good shape.
I started with the 4k norton, rolling x stroked until it felt right, then went into a 4/8 pyramid.
After the pyramid I could tell it wasn't sharp enough... So I put it down and went to bed.
Next day I pull out the 40X loupe and inspect the edge. It looked like a serrated edge.
Here is where I decide to start fresh, 2 layers of tape (its a wide blade with a narrow spine).. After about 20 laps I check it out under mag, the same serrated edge? After about 20 more laps It looks the same, but feels set.
I move to the 4k to hopefully smooth it out, and it is doing the same microchipping, just won't smooth out.

The solution, use the unicot method on my coti, problem is its only 1x5.
So I make heavy coti slurry on top of my 8k, after about 80 strokes diluting about every 20 strokes, fresh tape then 10 strokes on a clean wet 8k, then 20 on the baby coti. The razor shaved beautifully and edge looks excellent under magnification. Today I learned that there is more than one way to skin a cat.

Anyone else have a razor act like this?

Thanks,
Eric