Need some help figuring out a way to fix a small grinding error.

[Steelhog]

Hey all. I could use some advice on how to go about fixing this issue. Where the intended blade edge and the guard meet up I was just a little off on my grinding and it has left a very small "shelf" of sorts. The phots make this look far, far larger than it actually is and I don't think I am steady enough on the 2/72 to fix this without messing something else up and making a worse issue. If you have ever run into this how did you fix it? Hand files was the only thing I could think of but even then its real close.........

Any and all feedback/help would be appreciated. (This is post heat treat BTW).

 

[Forrest Taylor]

The plunge lines look really clean. I'd be tempted to leave it instead of risking further problems.
Or you could accentuate it with a radius sweeping it toward the tip of the guard as an S shaped design element

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

I would use a safe edge file to carefully trim it up ... or just leave it as-is.

 

[Crag the Brewer]

I'm not sure how you did it?
Were you tweaking your profile After doing your blade grinds?

If it bugs you, id file with diamond file for a slow work.....
But me, id blend it on the grinder, but I'm pretty good with it.

 

[N.W. Gean]

If the photos exaggerate it, I'd leave it alone. Really have to squint to see any issue there in the pics.

 

[FredyCro]

If you have speed control on your grinder and your belts run true you could touch it up very carefully. Light touch on a 220 and its gone

 

[JoeBusic]

Sharpening choil.
Or use a hand sanding block, sand paper bent for the corner, piece of paper on the bottom so it doesn't scratch the bevel, and sand it until true.

 

[Horsewright]

I'd do this:

Your grinding is very nice BTW

 

[Steelhog]

Well I decided to risk it all and try to round out the top of the guard with a 320 belt. I put a few layers of duct tape on the blade edge to prevent any errors or slips. May need to do a sharpening choil also but it's better than it was. Thanks all for the help and suggestions.

 

[Crag the Brewer]

Well I decided to risk it all and try to round out the top of the guard with a 320 belt. I put a few layers of duct tape on the blade edge to prevent any errors or slips. May need to do a sharpening choil also but it's better than it was. Thanks all for the help and suggestions.

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Good job!!!
That's the Best outcome.

 

[Steelhog]

Good job!!!
That's the Best outcome.

Hey thanks I was happy also. Unfortunately my luck soon ran out when I accidentally cracked a set of desert ironwood scales I had been saving up. Oh well tomorrow's a new day.

 

[JoeBusic]

Unfortunately my luck soon ran out when I accidentally cracked a set of desert ironwood scales I had been saving up.

Make a river scale out of it.