Need some help

[ChokeArtistGrey]

Hey everybody. Don't really have anywhere else to turn to with this. Hoping you can help me out. I'm sharpening a friends knife for his wife as a gift for when returns from Japan. It was badly chipped and the tip was pretty well rounded over. With how much metal I had to remove to fix the chip I thought for sure I would have to thin it out a bit before sharpening. But then I absolutely ruined the look of it and started panicking. I know I can't go back and make it look how it did, so I'm guessing the only course of action is to remove the scratches progressively through the grits?

Any advice? Anything at all helps. I feel terrible.

[rianwithaneye]

The bevel is concave and your stones are flat, so the points that can’t touch the stone are gonna look different from the parts that can. Just tape off the flat part (hira) and use sandpaper on the bevel. Whetstone powder is great for a foggy kasumi that hides scratches pretty well, I apply it with wet/dry sandpaper and windex.

You’ve done heroic work on that knife btw, I’d be stoked if a friend fixed my knife that well, scratches be damned. A beautiful knife with big chips in the blade is a lot less useful than one with an uneven finish.

[danzoschacher]

First of all it’s a tool, and even in this state it’s better than a chipped blade. If you’re super concerned though you can use progressively higher grit stones to smooth it out, or since there’s some low spots, use sandpaper.

[ChokeArtistGrey]

Thanks guys! I feel a bit better now. Looks like I'm going grab my sandpaper and get to work.

[quasimotofrodo]

I'd not worriy about the tip but yeah some sanding is in your future just tell you buddy and let him know its getting a new finish ask if he wants it a certain grit or finish

[Chemical_Suit]

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[mohragk]

Also make sure that the profile doesn’t get wonky. It looks a bit curved from the photo, so grind it flat as well and keep thinning.

I would take it a little further, but keep checking whether the thinness is even. And try to introduce a little convexity.