I recently aquired a Plumb Bolo 1917 knife in a trade. It's kind of been beat to crap but I'm in the process of making it presentable again, getting the bends out of it and oiling the hand guard. The issue I have with it is that sometime in the past it was put on a grinding wheel to sharpen it. The marks are pretty bad in some places. As it is a knife, it probably would be sharpened in the normal course of its life. Should I polish the grinder marks out of it or let it alone. The blade has a pretty old looking patina. This was done a long time ago. Polishing it is going to put a shine on the edge. The guy who had it before me used if for years to chop down corn stalks in his garden.
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