Thread: I could use some advice here

Hi all!!

Recently I got an ebay deal on a straight razor with a fair amount of patina and pitting. I managed to get the razor to a mirror finish without having much trouble removing the necessary steel. The edge had a fairly big chip and I butterknifed it.

Problems come when I want to hone it. Because of its big "smile" (see pics below because it's not really a smile) I need to be extra careful as I never honed this kind of straights. It was then when I realized the blade rocks on the hone, rocks very bad from one side and slighlty on the other (enough for not being able to hone it without concern).

Now I don't know what to do. I can tape both sides of the spine to make the blade fully sit on the hone, or I can remove the necessary steel to make it sit flat, but that I think would ruin the shape of the blade, or I can hone it with Swooping X-Strokes being extra careful making sure the spine is in contact with the hone at all times.

Honestly, I don't know what's best to do in this case, or even if it's even worth it.

Here are some pics:
The first you can see the big "hole" at the heel, it reaches almost half the edge
On the second, the hole left is not very big, you can see it a little bit
Third picture is a general view on the "smile" of the blade.

Sorry for quality of pictures, I only have my phone right now for taking pictures.