The greatest thing this hobby has given me

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Six hours, maybe more, of hand sanding and grinding to get this near wedge clean and to fix the grind on the tang. One little tweak needed to address a warp , then it would have been final polish and start on the scales and this is the result.


The interesting thing to me is the calmness with which I seem to handle these set backs now. Having spent hours and hours honing only to end up with an unusable razor and having to start all over again seems to have taught me a level of patience I never before possessed. This is the first time I've actually wrecked a blade, but I felt nothing more than mild irritation, no throwing teddy out of the pram, no making up new swear words, nothing and for that I am very thankful. Now, anyone have any ideas on what I could do with what's left? All I can think of is Western-kamisori hybrid.