Nifty,

I'm with you on the peening. I have an old Greaves Sheafworks that looks like it might have been peened. I'm more familiar with peening my European scythe blade. The beauty of those blades (as opposed to the stamped-out American blades) is that the whole depth of the blade is a reservoir of steel for the edge. You draw the new steel foward by peening, work-hardening it at the same time. Did a small tree put a nick in your scythe? No problem, round off the damage with a file then peen some new steel out to fill the gap. I wish we could do that with our razors.