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I don't think this steel is fine-grained enough to take a proper shaving edge. Even if by some grace of God you get it to a Rockwell hardness range of 55-63 (yeah, sure :rolleyes:) it will just chip...

Actually $16 isn't too bad for a nice set of scales lol. You can use it to practice your stropping, but there's no point in working on your honing as it will never take a proper shaving edge. It's...

You can use the "blade" to spread warm (and only warm) butter with and the scales look nice so you can mount them on a real blade. Try to find a good vintage piece with busted scales.