bought a joseph rodger microtome thinking it was a wedge and i was going to get rid of it,then i was going to reshape it like a japanese blade but lately i've been thinking of just keeping as is,i haven't seen many and it only has a small patch of pits on the flat side other than that it's perfect and never been honed or used by the look of it,as a part of history and not likely to be made again it's worth keeping it for what it is i think