My sweeney

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Well this is no restoration, but I figured if ben325e could make an old hickory shave then i'll give my sweeney a go. Trere are 2 types of sweeneys on ebay. I got the one made of 1045 surgical stainless.
First off I had to make a bevel of course. I did this by taping the spine and taking it to my drill powered belt sander.This knocked the existing bevel off pretty quick.Then i put it to work on a dunlap combo hone med/fine. I'm not sure about the grits med is equiv. to a fine bench grind the fine side is a med grit to me.this took awhile with multiple retapes. Whent to another dunlap combo next these wee much finer grits. Many tapes later then onto the barber hone. Only needed one tape here since it about glass in grit. If you look at the pics you'll see that I only honed about half the razor. This was done for two reasons. 1.the cutting edge is about 5 inches long and who needs that much razor. 2. the grind wasen't done full lenght so I couldn't have gotten it honed thin enuf anyway.will it shave worth a crap? I don't know but I'll find out.