I've had the blade like this in the vice, because I've been playing around with custom file work, and to get the underside of the tang....well, you know where I'm going.

Also, since I use a pivot clamp, I tend to clamp down the tang and sand the blade face that way..... I don't have the Bill Ellis fancy blade holder-set up. I'd like to rig one someday though. Probably after I slice open my arm on my vice-clamped razor.




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