Thread: Fixing a smile?

Hi everyone, hope you could help a newbie out. I recently bought a pipe razor off ebay to try my hand at restoring for the first time. The blade has a smile to it and the spine also appears to be curved as well. I have read quite a bit about honing and some mention using the breadknife technique to get rid of a smile. With this blade (which already has quite a bit of metal removed from wear over the years), do you feel it would be better to try straighten out the smile a bit with "breadknifing"? Or would it be better to use a rolling X stroke and just try sharpen up what I already have?
I have a 1200k wetstone and a 4k/8k Norton. I also have a dremel and picked up some Maas Polish yesterday. Any ideas on what you guys think the restoration could involve would also be welcome. Thanks for your opinions and any advice you can give. Hope the pics show up.