Thanks for your welcoming replies, and for the advice on the honing. This is something I have already started to consider and I will probably do just that.

Now, it seems that I have created a brand new problem for myself with the same very wedge razor. I don't know how stupid my misadventure really is, or if it is something novices do regularly, but here is what happened:

I watched a few videos on learning to hone (no surprise there), and one particularly caught my attention because the instructor shows the viewer a beautiful and shinny blade, then goes on to explain that it is a razor that he restored from it's former bad shape and that he cleaned the blade and polished himself, removing all stains and dark spots that were all over the blade.

This got me thinking, since my blade could use such a cleaning. Of course, he didn't explain how he cleaned his blade and I had to come up with my own plan...

My Dremmel came to mind. Not only is it powerful and fast, but I got several accessories for cleaning and polishing steel/chrome and some nice jewel cleaning rouge. I never used it before but it can't be too difficult right? And then I thought of testing it on something else but what the hell, let's just make that blade shine.

At first, it really did a good job and I saw a substantial amount of grime and stains fade away. But some of it was more resistant so I checked my accessory booklet, and found that I had a few thick discs that are used to do a rough first cleaning. Exactly what the doctor ordered, so I put it on my Dremmel and went back to work. That's when disaster stroked.

It did a rough cleaning all right, and left some nasty marks on the blade. Very shinny marks. I decided I needed to increase the Dremmel speed and it would buff the marks out. It kinda did, and I saw some encouraging shine on the blade. But I could not make it an even shade and I still was making wide scratches. I worked on it for a while, made a mess of that side of the blade, and somehow managed the screw the blade edge with the screw holding the disc to my Dremmel. I really messed things up.

Now it seems my only recourse is to get dry/wet sandpaper and refinish the blade by hand. I ordered 7 different grits: 320, 600, 1000, 1200, 1500, 2000, and 2500. I will have to sand that blade, from coarse to fine grit, and hope I can salvage it. Then I will send the razor to a pro to get it honed. Do you guys think it can be salvaged that way?