Originally Posted by
criswilson10
It might be a combination of both the soft steel being honed out, and the harder steel being brittle. The cure for that is a lot of honing with very little pressure on high grit stones and checking with magnification often.
Sounds like we might have a new candidate for the razor's to avoid list.
And BTW, VG10 steel, while it might or might not suck for razors, makes excellent an excellent smoothing plane iron.