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    Your pictures are very out of focus so it's hard to tell, but I think that's a huge chip after the shiny spots.
    Regardless of this, I wouldn't shave with a razor that has sliced through a thumbnail - at that point it most certainly stops meeting my shave ready standard.

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    From the reflections it looks like your edge is wavy. How are you wiping the lather off your blade? The metal at the edge is very thin, almost like a foil. If you wipe the side of the blade on anything harder that the 'foil' edge it will bend and/or chip. Wipe the lathre off the blade on the back of your hand or on something in your hand and be delicate. I wipe onto a paper towel I hild in my hand just to keep my hands from getting slippery. When I first started shaving I wiped my blade on a paper tower over the edge of the sink counter and the blade looked like your pic if I didn't have my glasses on. You need to straighten your edge back to flat. Stropping on linen may help. You may need to do this several times and waot a while inbetween sessions. This may release the stress in metal and allow edge toreturn to natural state. Caution, chipping of edge may result if metal is too fatigued. Hopefully others will offer some more advice on this.

    On the blades I had this issue with the linen stropping and honing brought the edges back to flat and they all shave good now.
    “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” (A. Einstein)

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    Now that you say it I believe the edge could be wavy. I was using a cloth to wipe off the shaving soap, I must have been a little too rough wiping it off. Also in the above post I meant TPT not TNT, I realize that these are quite different and I will edit the post ASAP.

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