Quote Originally Posted by howdydave View Post
Immediate focus on the edge seems fairly pointless when you may need to hone off some of the body of the blade itself in order to get contact between the spine, the edge, and the hone when you lay your blade flat on the stone... Until you get this spine and edge simultaneous contact, you can not set your bevel.

I had to grind quite a bit off of the back side (without the GD logo on it.)
Some had to be ground down from the toe all the way to the heel: less at the toe with an ever increasing amount all the way to the heel.

Before that was done, my honing stones were not even in contact with the edge on the back side of my blade.
I agree

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