I pulled out one of my Charlie Lewis one piece razors, a cpm154 stainless steel. Started shaving and moving the off hand to stretch the skin by habit the same as with a folding straight. The off hand hit the tail of the razor, which normally isn't in that position, and down it went!!! :( The tang hit just right and caused it to flip and the edge caught the underside of the Formica counter before falling to the floor mat.
i decided to hone out the ding to the edge using just the Shapton GS's. I applied 3 layers of tape and started on the 220 stone, with slurry. I was surprised at how hard that stone is. It took several hours to finally work through the ding, and the 220 with a lot of pressure didn't auto slurry. Had to change out the top layer of tape quite a few times and then removed it and worked 2 layers and finally down to one.
The challenge was to keep the smiling profile of the razor. For the first time, for me, and because of the short blade length I used rolling circles to remove most of the metal, along with rolling x-strokes. Doing rolling circles I applied more pressure on the ends and lighter pressure as I rolled through the middle of the blade since it got, 2 to 1 passes more per stroke. Anyway, it was a new one for me. Went through the full progression of Shaptons, and this cpm154 stainless quarter grind was the hardest steel I've ever honed.
Its back to shave ready and measures exactly from spine to edge across the whole blade.
Howard :)