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Honing a "military" blade.
Hey guys. Now that I'm out of the Marine Corps, I got gifted this nice straight edge razor from my grandmother. She said it was my grandfather's back when he was in the service.
Anyways, it's pretty beat up as you can see in the pictures. I have a full norton's honing stone set, and I started with the 220 stone to try and bust off a lot of the rust and pitting in addition to getting a bevel set.
After doing 20 circles back and forth a couple times, then taking straight laps (10) at a time, I moved up to the 1k. After a while I was able to get the middle part of the blade to cut arm hairs fairly well, but the heel and toes wasn't able to.
Upon closer look I could tell something was wrong with the spine and the edge. You can see on the spine where the rust was removed. And in the center, the area cleaned up is wider than on the heel and toe. That also seems to be the case, but to a lesser extent on the edge.
Here are the pics.
What should I do from here to correct the issue?
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