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Birnando, I don't mean heat treatment in the sense that it is faulty and the blade is no good. I mean that some blades may be harder steel, more abrasion resistant, than others. For example, IME, the...

What Glen said is good advice. Sometimes I've put the darn thing in the cabinet and come back another day. :)

Perhaps something to do with the steel ....alloy, heat treat/hardness ? I've had some that honed up so easily I thought I had become a honemeister and than run into others that had me .........