Old Hickory

[Boattale]

Here's what the edge looks like now. You can see there was quite a bit of steel taken off to get there. More so the closer to the point. This is now finished on 1000 grit diamond stone freehand. Got the coarse work done with 300 grit diamond. Worth the time to me. Good luck with the Kephart.
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[Miketbass]

My mother has always had an OH butcher knife in the kitchen, and after decades I decided to replace it with new one. Boy, they didn't even look like the same knife so much steel had been removed from the old one over the years. And I remember of lovingly putting in the time to get that new butcher sharp as a razor... and it took an eternity lol to get there.

Beautiful knives that have a strong significance to me, but it's a right of passage to put the edge on one. Yours looks well thinned out and should cut amazing. Enjoy it.

 

[Moggelito]

I think I know why it was so difficult to get it sharp. When I looked closely at the spine I can see that it's more crooked than the letter s. Of course it's gonna be a pain in the ass to get an even grind on it.