Sheffield / solingen steel difference
I am currently handsanding a 7/8 quarter hollow made from solingen steel.
Until now, my sanding was always on sheffield razors.
Now this one is as tough as ball bearings. It laughs at my 100 grit sandpaper.
I have to press down really, REALLY hard in order to even make visible scratch lines.
The plus side of course is that the scratch line depth for a given grit is shallower than on softer steel so it should be easier to polish it up.
Anyway, is it normal for solingen steel razors to be harder than sheffield steel razors or is this just a coincidence / luck of the draw kind of thing?