Edge on a gut hook

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I'm not asking for feedback on the benefits or lack of having a gut hook on a blade, just asking how to get a decent edge on one? This is the first knife I've done one on, was a challenge forging anyway. Left the gut hook finishing for last, yes even after the heat treat and temper and now not too sure how to get an edge on it. I've got a chainsaw file or a dozen, flat files, sand papers belt grinders, ideas? Knife is camel bone and 1075 steel.
Gut hook https://imgur.com/gallery/Wl2991o
 
Use a Dremel sanding drum to profile the edge, then put the final touches on it with a sharpening steel.
 
I use diamond cylinder burrs in my flexshaft (a Dremel will work). HF has them in sets of 30 for $10. The cylinder stone burrs used for sharpening chainsaws also work.
 
I just heat treated my first knife with a gut hook and was wondering the same thing. I use a round file to get me 80% of the way there then quenched/heat treated the knife figuring I'd square the rest away later. I like to dremel idea just need to find a good diamond round file now..
 
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