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The steel in the center of the blade is not so much critical. The steel that forms the bevel leading to the edge is critical to whether or not it will shave well. That and the steel just above where...

Yea, that is the point of doing the bevel set first as you only have so much metal you can remove from the blade sanding it down you may wind up there anyway. Easier to see what you've actually got...

I'd probably try to set the bevel on a 1K hone first to get a clean no pit bevel and edge first before sanding and polishing the rest of the blade. Not talking honing it to a shaving edge just...

That looks like it worked to not getting it look like a saw. Oth I have had quite a few that looked like that after a coarse honing but still had pitting on or near the bevel/edge that took a lot of...

Like I said, you never know. Sure does look a lot better now. Congrats on getting it this far.

Bob

The Morley and Sons looks like it is toast due to the corrosion of the edge. You never know though but at least you'll get lots of practice trying to hone past all that corrosion to get to good solid...