I'm feeling pretty proud of myself right now. I've been out of shaving the last three years because I grew a full beard but recently picked it back up. So I was out vintage blade hunting and found an old Boker which had a pretty decent sized chip in the cutting edge. I bought it ($20) knowing it would take some major work, a lot of work I've never done before. I've restored before but only from blades with no chips and just needed some TLC. This was something more.

Anyways, I got the chip out with some 360 grain paper then moved to the 4,000 (that's all I have is the 4,000/8,000, don't really have a lot of money to spend on wet stones). It took some work and I got frustrated about half way because I couldn't see any progress. Also, it seems to hone uneven. The bottom doesn't hone as nice as the top. I just stropped it with a .5 diamond spray and it performs the hanging hair test on the top half of the blade. I'm actually very proud of that! But I need to take it back to the 8,000 to work on the bottom to see if I can get the bottom half of the blade to split a hanging hair.

Any feedback, advice, or comments? Overall, I'm pretty proud of my progress so far. I plan on putting some beautiful ram horn scales on it when I'm done.