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Well I am not sure how you do it, but this is how I do it Take one 8/8 George Savage Hollow grind, just a true olé beauty... http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg296/gssixgun/SavageBefore.jpg But hidden deep in the patina is a crack, if you look close in this before pic you can barely make it out.....

There is an alternative to trying to straighten a bent blade, and that is to use a hone that has a single point of contact on the spine, along with a single point on the edge. Doesn't matter if the blade is bent, the hone will travel along it touching just on either side as it goes. It's easy to vi...