After reading the SRP Wiki and numerous search results, I'm still a little stumped here. A friend asked me to refinish a TI he bought, hone it and put new scales on it. I put scales on it, and when I started honing the razor, I noticed the bevel wouldn't set in the middle. After using my loupe and marker test, I noticed the middle of one side of the blade wasn't getting hit. The blade rocked on one side and wouldn't remove the marker line in the middle on the other. I started out without tape, but seeing the amount of honing I was going to have to do, I added a piece of tape to the spine. I'm using a Norton 1k to set the bevel and the Naniwa 3k, 5k, 8k, 12k and CrO3. I am using a rolling x-stroke on the convex side with success; however, I've tried a 45 degree heel forward cant on the concave side but it still won't hit the very middle unless I put a little pressure on the middle of the blade at the edge with my off hand (indicated under loupe and a marker test). I've been able to get the heel and toe to shave well; however, I can't get the middle sharper than what I've been able to do at the 8k level on a bad day. If I torque the concave side to hit the middle then the heel and toe loose their finished sharpness.

My general question is: how do I finish this warped blade?

Is there any other way to finish the middle of the blade without using extra pressure with my off hand?

You can't reprofile the edge to bring the middle in line with the heel and toe, can you?

Attached are some crappy pictures to indicate the uneven bevel wear.

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Thanks in advance