Thread: Honing problem on restore.

I've had situations where I "thought" I had honed all the way into good steel but additional honing uncovered pits that were already there. I would not breadknife it, but I would continue honing on 1K until I could see good steel under bright light and a 10X loupe. Unless you do that and can see good steel, you are flying (or honing) blind. Sometimes, like on a big ol' Wostenholm I love, the fact is that the interior steel is shot to hell as a result of "Devil's Spit" going deep into the blade, and the pits are just in there waiting to be revealed. In the case of the Wostenholm, there was no solution. I hope you fare better than I did.