Once again that "I can fix it!" thing bit me...

Someone mistreated a Japanese nakiri chef knife by using it as a cleaver.  Needless to say, they put a healthy divot in the edge of the blade.  .138" deep to be more exact...

After they damaged the blade more than what most people would be stupid enough to try to fix, they donated to our church.  I am still a little confused as to 'why'...  If it is bad enough that you don't want to use it, why would you give it your church for them to use?

ANYWAYS....  "I can fix it!"  ugh.  I need to somehow learn to keep my mouth shut.

The blade is san-mai construction and uses pretty good steels, so I went about repairing it.

I did not want to mess with the heat treat, so I selected the painstaking method of sanding the divot out.  A LOT of sanding later, I finally got it finished!  The blade's edge had a little bit of a 'wow' to it, that I did not notice until I was working on it.  That is now fixed, and the edge is straight.

It is all sharpened up really nice again.

Enjoy!