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[QUOTE=Euclid440;1697495]You are honing on the stabilizer (Blue Circle) and possibly way up on the tang, (Blue Arrow) that might be the photo, though.

By putting so much tape on it, you are...

I spoke to Max today.

He remembers the blade and did not hone it to shave ready , he just put a new bevel their with a DMT plate and corrected it by going into the heel.

So then I came alone...

I will ink it up and try several things..

What if it shaves perfectly well with 6 layers? if it aint broke? ok we know its broke

The bevel was set and edge correction performed by Max- Honemeister , so it never occurred to me to take it to a diamond plate. I just wanted to go over his work.
What you say about spending time on...

Interesting.
That ware on the heel was done by Max . I guess he knocked some metal off that area to even the blade out.
It was a serious right angle with a sharp corner but I just bread knifed the...

A close up ..

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I think I understand you...

New scales and those tang inlay pieces .. I assume it requires 6 layers of tape because the grind is crazy, hence the spine has to be jacked up to get the edge on the hone..

I'm in 2 minds, whether or not to A. Take it to a diamond plate with 2 layers of tape and see what happens.

Or B: Leave it be , it looks pretty and has a nice edge , I think.

I've only ever...

I see what you are all saying but if I only used one layer of tape then the bevel would end up super wide and that still would not guarantee me reaching the edge.

It was to get the very edge touching the hone

The spine width seems to be 4mm and the blade width is 20mm.

I stared with 2 layers of tape and only half of the bevel was touching the 1K
4 layers of tape and I thought I was there but one side...

Ha, I did say it was like the C135 steel, that's why..

I assumed they were old, it was probably the date 1884 that threw me off.

I do have one of the old T.I framebacks . Guess ill have to fix...

I bought this T.I (La Legende) blade a while ago and then sent it off for some customisations.

Then I let it sit for a time ,not wanting to mess about with it because I knew it had some geometry...