I'm still perfecting my honing ability. I have some straights around that I can shave with and just touch up as needed.
I also have some cheaper vintage Ebay straights that aren't bad but didn't come shave worthy. None of them have what I'd call chips or even pits but with magnification some have tiny gaps on the edge. Nothing that you could see without a magnified loup.
My question is, at what point do you bread knife the blade to flatten the whole blade and start from scratch? Or do I just keep honing to set the bevel or just polish and take it out that way or at a certain magnification is imperfection OK?
Bringing an Ebay straight up to shave worthy.