Thread: A very big problem, help before ................

Looking at the scratch pattern is appears you go straight across the hone ? No X stroke ? Even with a warped spine a modified rolling x will compensate. A PITA but that is what it takes IME. Also, from the look of it I would expect it was a very coarse hone and/or a lot of pressure ? Not trying to rub salt into the wound, just trying to see what the source of the problem may have been.

BTW, the marker is quite easy to use. Take a magic marker. a sharpie, and color the very edge of the blade. As you do a stroke or two across the hone only the places the bevel touches will have the color removed. You do it until you see what stroke is working effectively. Then wipe the marker off the blade and continue honing.

The blade may be fixable as far as cosmetics and use are concerned. If it is a wedge, and there is enough meat there, you might be able to send it out and have it correctly honed to be usable, and polished so it won't be such an eyesore.