Quote Originally Posted by criswilson10 View Post
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.
Thanks for your comments, cant believe your a carpenter as well