@Voidmonster... Thanks! I think that is a bit of corrosion that was left after the cleanup but I am going to take another look under mag as I never thought about it being ground off deliberately. Naked eye I cannot see a thing aside form a line of corrosion that was more difficult to remove as it was so close to the scales.

I just got done honing 'er up and shaving... Really, really, really a good shave! I have been reviewing the JANorton link and tweaked a couple things with my technique and left out the pasted stropping altogether just going right to felt/leather stropping after Naniwa 12K and got a MUCH better shave. Very excited about that and super excited about the quality of this razor! :-)