Background .. It's an Iron clad Wat that needed a tune-up to be useful. My first goal was to make the useful part be for the kitchen. If it's good/fun polishing practice, that's nice, but it had a lot of warts, so not required. It came so think behind the edge that it almost wedged in a ripe tomato. The blade road had a lot of wobbly surfaces, including a major overgrind at the heel (both sides), the belly (left side 1" from tip), the tip (right side), and a stray hammer mark (right belly). I detected no bending of the blade before or after my work.
I ground out most of the nasty stuff, focusing on getting thinner behind the edge, and getting close to removing the wobbles, and the hammer mark. The overgrinds are reduced due to thinning, but one I am not sure what to do with. Specifically, I was keeping the blade road pretty flat (from tip to heel), and couldn't reach the heel on the right side. I know I can get there by changing the geometry, but that feels like fixing an overgrind by overgrind-ing. Or maybe not. Advise welcome. Picture below. "L" shaped magic marker to show the stone misses it entirely (unless I lift the tip or spine, which I haven't).
Work done so far: grits 200, 400, 1000. Finer grits so I could see what was done more clearly - in areas other than the heel.
I ground out most of the nasty stuff, focusing on getting thinner behind the edge, and getting close to removing the wobbles, and the hammer mark. The overgrinds are reduced due to thinning, but one I am not sure what to do with. Specifically, I was keeping the blade road pretty flat (from tip to heel), and couldn't reach the heel on the right side. I know I can get there by changing the geometry, but that feels like fixing an overgrind by overgrind-ing. Or maybe not. Advise welcome. Picture below. "L" shaped magic marker to show the stone misses it entirely (unless I lift the tip or spine, which I haven't).
Work done so far: grits 200, 400, 1000. Finer grits so I could see what was done more clearly - in areas other than the heel.
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