Thread: Wasting my time?

Hi Guys,

This is a Boker blade that my wife got off of ebay for virtually nothing. It looked a little rough but it was intended as a blade I could practicing honing and cleaning without endangering the blade I use to shave.

So far I only have a couple hours into it and I wanted to know if it's a waste of time to continue on it. I have a feeling it is. My concern it the dark spots along the edge. I'm assuming that it is pitting and the blade is shot unless I want to grind the edge up and turn it into a much smaller blade. What do you guys think?

I rather like the vintage look to the blade so my only concern is whether I can get a decent edge to it. When I got the blade the edge looked like a hacksaw. What you see now is after I ran it over a whetstone I have for my pocket knives. I just wanted to clear enough away to see the edge.