Remedial Question about Microchipping

Leatherstockings

Well-known member
Will microchipping be removed during a refresh honing? I have a vintage #14 that has chipping which is barely visible at 60x magnification. Would a refresh at 12k followed by a Thuringian likely remove the chipping?

I don’t know if this info would be useful but the
 

Bogie

I'm not looking at you !
Just for what its worth, when I refresh an edge, I'll take it back to an 8k and make enough passes that it has a nice clean edge. Then coticule, JNAT, pasted strop and back in the drawer.
 
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