First Planes Restore #2: Progress on the Defiance
Defiance after a bath in Evapo-Rust (gotta love that stuff) Problem area. I gave it a bath in Evapo-Rust. Flattened then smoothed the working end of the chipbreaker/cap iron. Removed the the chips from the blade and rough-honed the primary bevel and made the initial effort to lap/flatten the back. The back of the blade looks as though it might have been lightly hit with a grinder (or something similar) and it is requiring a lot of lapping to remove the marks, i might need some advice about this in the future as i am not sure what can be done about it. The frog is where i am having my current issue… first off all the contact surfaces of it were painted including the body...
