Thread: Edge Question

I have a Hoffritz New York and it was very rusty and pitted. I removed about 1/8 of edge and rehoned and have been shaving with it for a while. Here's the deal I looked at the blade under 100X magnification after honing and the blade was smooth and straight. After shaving and stropping several times the edge has a good bit of micro chipping. Is this from residual rust? I am not heavy handed when stropping. It is not nicks, nor is it a chip from impact. It looks like it is just crumbling away in spots. It will shave, but I will not use it anymore like it is. This is the only razor that is like this. All help is apreciated.

Hard to say without seeing it. If the corrosion extended into the edge it will either hone down to clean steel or if it is too deep it will fall away into micro chipping as you are describing. That may be what is happening.

That's what I was thinking. It appears to be falling away.

Sounds like a swiss cheese edge, with really rusted edges you might not ever get to good steel, it is always a crap shoot....

Sometimes it is just surface rust, other times the rust goes deep and makes swiss cheese out of the underlying steel....

I wasted so much polishing time, when I first started doing restores, on rusted razors, only to find bad steel on the edge... Now if there is rust near the edge I break out the 220/1k and take the edge down fast and cut a rough bevel to see if the steel at least looks clean, before I do all the polishing work.... Every now and then one will still fool me though, looks like good clean steel, until yer done, and start doing the 8k and above edge polishing, and it will just start the edge to crumbling.