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W&B Wedge with bad regrind
I purchased this W&B wedge from ebay. I knew it had been reground from the pictures - it looked far to good and the blade had lost some width in the process of getting to good steel. What I didn't expect was that the regrind was so bad that it completely screwed up the geometry on the blade. Kind of a lopsided triangle and nothing is flat.
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I have it out to a machinist to see if he can bring it back into proper geometry on a milling machine. At this point the blade won't even lay flat on a stone so there's really no point in trying to hone it. I paid very little for it but the seller refunded about 40% immediately when I complained and asked for a 40% refund because it wasn't worth what I paid. So - to his credit, he refunded what I asked immediately and told me he would make it right if that wasn't satisfactory. At least I got a good seller in a buyer-be-ware market on ebay - that's rare. I would post more pictures but I didn't snap any before getting it to the machinist. His initial impression was that he would have to take down the lopsided side which would shorten the overall width a little bit more. Given the size - do think this will be OK?
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Thanks for any advice - I've asked the machinist to wait until I tell him to give it a try.
Adam