So I've taken a couple of inexpert cracks at getting this old razor of mine ready to go without even the slightest stroke of luck. Being a knife person first my thought processes are probably way off and somehow I doubt I have the patience for the RIGHT answer, even so far as simply keeping it up should I have one of the pros hone it for me. I've even posted a thread or two regarding it at one point or another but still haven't managed to get this bastard to cooperate even a little bit. Here's what we're looking at...

I've got a pair of Norton's (220/1000 and 4000/8000) and essentially nothing else as far as honing equipment goes. The problem I have is an obviously warped or at least WAY out of kilter blade that causes my bevel to be so far out of whack that I fear I'll never be able to get it in shape to put this blade into my rotation (so far I'm rotating a single razor because I'm poor )

In this first picture the issue is going to look like a trick of the light/flash I assure you it's not. The second one proves it by doing the exact opposite of the initial "trick" so look at them both please.


As you can see the spine wear is obviously out of whack as well. If I had bought this off eBay I'd chalk it up to bad luck and trash the sucker, but it's actually a family heirloom of sorts passed down for at least two or three generations so I'd kinda like to get her up to par so she can go back to being a useful part of the family instead of collecting dust in the back of my Dad's sock drawer (where's it's been pretty much my whole life).

My instinct is to grind the living shit out of it on a low grit until the edge and bevel evens up THEN try honing it as if it was a razor, but something tells me that would just destroy it. I sorta tried a bit of that on my 220 but to be honest it seemed like the stone wasn't having much effect on the razor at all so I gave up pretty quick. After reading more around here I am afraid this thing is going to require a thinner hone and some special technique like rocking the thing across the hone which to be honest is WAY too big a PIA for me to put up with. I hope I'm wrong though so I'm posting this to get some opinions from more experienced and probably more patient people than myself. So anyhow thanks in advance for any and all advice and if the best advice you can give me is to frame the thing I'll take it and start picking out a shadow box.