Thread: Honing bellied hollow / double grind after restore

Good Morning Gents,

I thought I might be posting this in the restoration section today, but instead I'm here trying to verify what I *think* is happening. This is a Friedr Herder Abr Sohn 172 that has had a rough life. I removed quite a bit of metal hand sanding over the last few weeks as time allowed, made up scales yesterday and then went to work on the edge.

Using 1 layer of tape and working on a King 1k, I can see that I am only removing metal from the bellied part of the blade just above the edge. I put in about 30-40 minutes trying to get to the edge and then stopped for the day and took this pic.

Before taking this picture I made a large line along the edge with a sharpie, then I made about 5 x strokes on each side. The line now looks like two black lines - the area in the middle is the only part that is making contact with the hone. The opposite side is nearly the same, but getting very close to the edge after the work I put in. (There was still water and slurry on the blade so I wiped it off between the spine and the belly, but I didn't wipe where the marker was because I didn't want to wipe the marker off..I should have left it alone because now here I am over-explaining the weird line on the blade)

I just want to make sure I'm not missing something here. I guess I removed more metal from the edge of the spine than from the belly area while doing the hand sanding work, which has led to the situation I find myself in now.

I just need to continue with moderate pressure on low grit stone until I get to the edge right? I could use more than 1 layer of tape so I don't have to replace it as often, but then I'd just have to work through that eventually also if I plan to finish with 1 layer...



Here is a pic showing the grind. This was around the mid-point of hand sanding


Here are a couple of as received images



-Mickey