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We've all been there
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One of my first's
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One of my last
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We've all been there
Last night I got it honed well enough and will try to shave with it tonight. It took a while because it was so loose I dropped the edge onto the hone a couple of times :). I hammered it tight again and may get one whole shave out of it.
I know that I should listen to Marty, and others, but I can be a stubborn turd sometimes. So far I am just happy that I have only gotten 3 of 11 that are in the "maybe I should come back to this when I am better" category. And considering that before I signed up here I thought I'd be able to restore about half of them, I am amazed how much I've learned in such a short time.
Got moving again on this today. I kind of got fed up as belly isn’t even on one side. I stopped chasing the line before something catastrophic happened.
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Missed it by this much! Boy the backside is perfect.
I reckon the only cure is to lose some width and be uniform on the back. Evening the front.
OR, make the top grind deeper. A lower belly.....Yeah....
You have skills, John. Good you took a break.
Looking good. You are learning lots.
I chased it a ways, any thinner above the belly and I’d start grinding a hole through it. Only way to do it now without causing irreparable harm would be hand sanding, and I abhor hand sanding. The hollows are all as ground. The flats and spine got hand sanded to 320 then buffed with a green wax bar on a 4” wheel. There are a fair amount of scratches in the finish.
I am working on some brown streaked scales for a Herder 49.
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Those are sure looking nice. Is it one of those uncirculated blades you’re sticking in it? I really should have bought a bunch of those when they were going for $50-$70... that and apple stock.
Correct. I should have bought more when they were going for cheap and could be bought even cheaper in large lots. I was going through a Sheffield phase at the time.
Here it is mocked up with a bone wedge.
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