I got a Robeson ShurEdge with a hammered shank off of eBay for cheap a while back. The etching is faded quite a bit so that you can only make out "that fits your face" and not the whole thing. There are some rust spots and staining, but all of that should come out with several hours of good hand sanding.

My question is do you hand sand a hammered shank just like the rest of the blade or is there another approach to take?

The scales looked cool but were warped pretty bad, so I took them off. I'll eventually need to buy a new set since I can't make my own yet.