Well...I took it home last night and went to the work bench with it.

I started by working backwards through the polishing grits until I achieved the depth of removal I wanted (to get rid of some of the previous rust and spots), then went back up the grits to get a shiny but not mirror finish (I might do that at some point, but not last night apparently).

Through my handling of the blade I came to a few realizations...first it seems sort of cheap in spite of the scales which seem nicer than that nasty rubber stuff I seem to encounter most of the time. The tang seems to have been simply cut out and all the edges are somewhat sharp (there is not relieving or radiusing to smooth things out). Oddly, this seems to work well on this piece as it offers traction to my digits and allows me to flip the blade easily even with wet or greasy phalanges.

I opted to not jimp or file work this piece (yet...and I probably won't ever). I just cleaned it up and "restored" it.

Then I went to honing it...and boy did it behave oddly. On the 1200 it became obvious that there was some warping issues. I finally honed a workable bevel onto it and proceeded up the scale, and tried a new method for kicks (the Zowanda method, I believe it is called). I may try that again in the future as it seemed to work really well.

Sorry there are no photos...I will take some tonight and share.

I would love to know more about this thing...It seems odd that there is no name on it. I wonder is someone ground off the makers mark trying to clean up rust...though it seems like previous efforts were from what appears to be the work of someone with no experience and a hand full of fine steel wool (so I would think they would not have been able to remove even a very shallow stamp, and if they used more aggressive means...I's be able to spot it as they were poor at hiding their tracks).

I am happy to have learned a few things from this piece!