Thread: Crooked Blade Help Please

so I've been working on restoring a Bengall and I put it together today to see how my progress was. It hits the scale and I initially figured I messed up the scales. While trying to figure out where I went wrong I think I found an issue with the tang. I placed the blade (no scales) on a flat surface and pressed down at the pivot hole to see how far the tip rose from the surface (I did this for both sides). One direction rose much further than the other leading me to believe the tang is uneven. I've attached pictures of my results, added red lines to give you a better idea of the distance since I know the pictures are a bit blurry, and I need some feedback. When I was restoring this blade I only started off with 220 sandpaper cause that was as low a grit as I could find (it was also all by hand, no power tools).

Could I have taken off enough metal to cause this, is this just a warped tang issue, is there any way to correct this?