Thread: Admiral Dewey Straight - 4 Resto Questions (pic heavy)

Last weekend I picked up a straight with this engraving of Admiral Dewey on it. Interesting, so why not; didn't cost much. Tang says Imperial Razor, Warranted Registered 20507 Germany.



Didn't have a loupe with me and thus didn't see the couple of, well, dents in the blade. From my USB microscope:





If these were just microchips, I'd know how to deal with that. But these are dents/bends in the bevel. From a camera's eye view, you can see they're not massive, but not too small for me to work out with a coarse hone without removing a lot of steel.

. Here's a camera macro pic, cropped only a bit. The yellow arrow shows one of the dents:



Question 1: Does anyone know anything about this blade? Is it a souvenir piece of junk or does it actually have good steel that will hone well? It looks and feels pretty solid.

Okay, I should have researched before writing this. Imperial seems like a real brand, and some people have like the steel.

Question 2: How in the world would one repair that damage, short of grinding the blade down? I don't have a grinder; all I have to throw at it would be a DMT 8c.

Question 3: Assuming that this is beyond me, what's the ballpark of getting it repaired? I've no problem cleaning and honing it; I just want the damage gone.

Question 4: Who has repaired this very sort of damage?

Thanks.