My razor was set upon with great intent to do something, but i don't know what. It has been seriously mis-sharpened. I have honed on it just a little. It works as tbs describes... for the time being. and if it turns impossible i'd be the first to say

the kanna anology. when you first learn to plane you are taught to go with the grain of the wood using a pull stroke. After some time the notion occurs to you that the next cut needs a push stroke. You never adopt it as a primary stroke, but when needs be it works better. Finally after much practice and observation tuning the dai and developing high level sharpening skill you learn the kanna can produce equal results planing either with or against the grain