No need to get into the entire tale on this, so I'll summarize: My brother is a Pro now located in NC. He was in a car accident right before he was supposed to help open a new spot as the Exec, and ended up having that subsequently fall through. I had (still have, TBH) a large group of vintage J-knives and I offered to let him pick what he wanted as a "get well and congratulations" gift when he was through most of the rehab and able to handle a full load again in the kitchen. Because of many reasons, mostly that I wanted to be putting out more consistent work before I sent things over, we're well past all of that and he's moving around and working just fine. So I've got a group of knives to still refurb and get to him, but he dropped off his "mostly for home and occasionally at work" kit for me to clean up, and boy did they need to be cleaned up. I'll post the progress in here as most of these have to be ready in a week so my folks can take them with on their way back to NC.
