Advice please (irregular hone due to previous efforts)
What is the consensus on ah heirloom that will be used weekly. Perhaps this will boil down to a personal choice...so I hesitate to even ask...but here goes.
I honed a razor recently, and someone had obviously previously honed it with their index finger resting on the obverse face on the away stroke because the bevel was a much lower angle in this area on the front face of the blade. Perhaps impossible to see from this before photo, but under the etching the bevel is wider. (the blade is what some call a "rattler" and quite flexible).
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/09/09/uhesy7ud.jpg
So during honing, I set a new bevel and the new bevel does not erase this old lower angle bit of bevel...but I established enough bevel to polish up nicely and it shaves well.
So my question is, what would YOU do? Consume more blade and polish out the sins of the past, or preserve as much life as possible and let the blade continue to show its past?
Thanks for you consideration.