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Bismarck is a very nice blade...had mine for awhile, like the scales on yours, mine ended up in blonde horn scales.

Although I'm a honing newbie myself, I ended up getting a Norton 4/8 in a deal with some razors, then picked up, like you did, a Naniwa 12k. I'm now just waiting, 2 weeks later, for a Naniwa...