Thank you so much! That really helped me to change my perspective. Reading that I kicked myself with a bit of a "duh" moment, haha. Looks like I got carried away with making it look interesting/fancy that I lost sight of those essential aspects which should have been #1.

I might be able to salvage them with some refining (smoothing edges/taking high spots down more) and maybe, because its 5/16, regrind shy of the spine too (instead of up to it) to allow more of a rounded meaty buffer leading up to the spine to help prevent shredding a strop?

Maybe I ought to focus more on more simple designs until I get hang of that before trying to go as fancy?