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Test shaved her today and damn! BBS!!! I am one happy duck owner. Happier knowing I didn't give up on the duck in the end. Even though it did take me a couple of hours of honing and cost me a...

Well, it turns out that the spine wear was uneven. Go figure. So I reground the spine and reset the bevel on 7/8 of the blade. The very toe was too far gone to fix the spine there, so I just...

Toe's not sharp. Its just frustrating, I finally understand what makes a honemeister a meister. Knowledge of all the different ways a blade can be ****ed up and how to fix them.

It probably just...

:mad: I can get the first 3/4 from the heel razor sharp. Damn it takes a good edge. But no dice on the last 1/4 where the blade is really messed up. Marker test is showing a good bevel, I'm about...

Seems like the consensus is it'll hone up pretty good in less than an hour.

My concern is the excessive hone wear towards the toe. Not as visible in the pictures, but the toe is really worn down...

Uneven hone wear too. More wear at the toe, less at the heel. Consequently, the toe is a lot shorter than the heel.

So I got this duck thinking it wasn't as bad as it really is. Well, the ebay pics lied, lied bad. Its horrible and quite possibly beyond my time restraints. Maybe even beyond my ability.
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