>>906584Once again you don't understand. Because helping others with sharpening is what is important to me, rather than puffing up my own ego or trying to lord what I think I know over others, I had no problem with telling you whatever you wanted to hear to get you to spell out the approach you had in mind.
However, once you did spell out what you had in mind (~400 grit waterstone, working recurve and non-recurved portions separately, not even knowing whether you could use scrubbing strokes on the recurved portion, using the existing edge bevel angle) I wanted to make sure I spelled out some much better approaches that won't take several hours.
And I want to thank you, because in thinking about better advice to give on this subject I realized that Congress Tools makes round rods of silicon carbide in 80 grit in their Moldmaster line, and now I know what to recommend if anyone ever asks for advice on chip repairs on a recurved edge.
See an ~80 grit silicon carbide round rod is by far the best took you could get for repairing deep chips on a recurve because it will be coarse enough
not.to be a ludicrous choice for the task, hard enough to use a ~45 degree angle on, and hard enough to use scrubbing strokes on, and because it's a curved surface it should not catch on the chips as you make scrubbing passes (those chips would gouge the corner of a waterstone if you made edge leading passes btw), and uniquely also allow you to work the whole length of the edge as a single step because the round rod would be able to work the whole edge, heel to tip, rather than just the recurved portion, saving half the time right off the bat.
Those Moldmaster stones are also pretty cheap, and light, so shipping wouldn't be too bad on one either.
So thanks for annoying me enough to come up with a much better solution.
