Can Chrome Oxide cause microchipping?
I've been experimenting with the green stuff lately, trying to figure out if it's really all that, for me anyway. I'm never sure it's an improvement over my coticule.
So lately I've been shaving with razors I've freshly honed, coming off the coticule. Halfway through the shave I stop and strop on the green. I do half my face at a time; WTG and ATG on one side, then repeat on the other side after the chrome oxide. And I can't say I've noticed much improvement. With one of my big fillys there was some, but not a lot. I figure it's probably just that my edges aren't that great, and you need a supersharp edge to begin with to be benefitting from chrome oxide.
But today I was doing that with a little modern wedge and the shave was markedly worse after the chrome oxide. I looked closely at the edge in the light afterwards and there were four or five tiny tiny little microchips I hadn't noticed before. Has anyone ever got microchipping from green paste? It seems somehow unlikely.