I received this 34 Heckles yesterday . I don't have time for a full restoration at the moment, so I just cleaned it up a tad because I am desperate to try this vintage steel.
I popped off the tang end pivot and sanded the scales and blades down with some 1200 grit glass paper. Then I oiled it up and re assembled it.
You can see there were chips in the toe and heel , the heel chip being a bit more nasty than the toe.
I used 2 pieces of tape and went straight onto my Atoma 1200.
Using light rolling X's until both chips were nearly gone.
Then I hit the Shapton 500 for only a few laps.
Ready to hone , I killed the edge and started on the Chosera 1K with slurry and only rolling X's
After setting the bevel I killed it on my finger nail and brought it back to life with the Chosera and water only. Light strokes.
Then onto my Nakayama and my new Botan, white n soft.
I used Botan / Tenjyou / Mejiro / Koma, all with one thickish slurry each and no dilutions.
Finally I created a DMT slurry on my very hard Tomo and transferred the slurry to my Nakayama .
This slurry I watered down 3 times and finished with about 20 slow strokes in a weak watery slurry.
I find that softer metals react better with a slurry from a harder tomo Nagura and the harder steels react better when used with a softer Tomo stone.
The steel in this blade reminds me of vintage Sheffield steel from a honing point of view..
Lastly I did 100 laps on linen and 102 on Cordovan ..
Today I will shave 8 days growth off (its only a tiny blade) :)
Cheers guys.
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Just shaved with this little fella. Wow truly special..