I've been working on a bunch of old razors. Today I finally got the hone up and running (I'd been having a hell of a time getting wet/dry sandpaper good enough to flatten a Norton), and I spent a really long time standing over my rock.

One of the razors, a Victorian era Joseph Rodgers, has a very slight twist in the spine, so that the razor rocks about 1mm when laid on the hone.

Other than the bend it's in pretty good shape. There's a bit of pitting along the edge near the point, but even the cursory honing I did showed me that the edge looks solid beneath it. I'm already planning on sending some razors to the pros to get them worked on, but I'm wondering if this can be worked on, or is it a lost cause?

(It looked like the razor had been put away with a significant quantity of blood on the edge -- the worst of the tarnish was in loops and whorls, as though it'd been laid down as a viscous liquid with a brush)