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If you want to hone that, you'll be honing until kingdom comes :)
It needs grinding. Interesting, because with the stabilizer ground like that, the first pic makes it looks like it was already...

If it's an unknown alloy, I'd rather have mike heat treating it than myself.
From just this pic, it really looks like a finished blade. But I'd happily grind it for you if you need someone to do it....

Actually, the sound they make is another tell.

If you hang a blank on a thread (or keep the end of the tang between your fingers very lightly) and tap it with a ball peen hammer in the sweet spot...

That's not a blank. That's a finished blade. You can tell by the fact that the blade is ground properly, and the fact that it has tang stamps. In other words, no heat treatment is needed. All you...