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I'm not sure where you get that they're hurting for labor. In recent years, companies have mostly been laying people off or outright firing them, to downsize in favor of AI and automated replacements, while the CEOs pat themselves on the back with fatter pay raises for themselves and their own bank accounts.

And let's not forget about the orange menace, one of his favorite things to say and do is "You're fired!" to government workers.

https://lemmy.world/post/33844724

Do tell me fellow lemming, what companies are actually hiring these days?

You mean that formaldehyde and fire retardant cancer causing smell?

WTF?

Once I missed a job interview for Dollar General, because Google, in their infinite wisdom, automatically filed their email to me in the spam folder..

Thankfully I'm not in Ohio, but how long before other states start doing this shit?

I had a hotdog with mayo for lunch.

Go back to using smoke signals and horns for semi long distance communication.

Nice try FBI

Looking past the obvious WTF, dude ain't curious about his deceased brother(s)? 🤔

It'll still be a shitty search.

Those sharpeners are typically only useful to touch up a barely worn/dull blade occasionally. What you have there appears to have a bit of a curved and rather worn edge, that'll take some better tooling and some more work, and it really helps to have experience, or ask a local expert to do that for you.

You really don't want to take off too much more metal, no more than is absolutely necessary to get the edges back flat and even. There are a number of ways to go about that, the true pros mount the knife in a jig first to keep the angle of the blade perfectly flat and consistent.

I happen to have a knack for doing that sort of thing freehand with a file and Dremel tool and the side of a cutting wheel, but I do not advise this sort of thing for amateurs.

And that's just to get the edges back flat and prepared for a new proper sharp edge, which from there typically requires a proper sharpening stone, leather strop, and as my late father taught me, a tungsten rod.

Again I'm not exactly an expert, but I do have a fair amount of experience, and have been able to sharpen blades enough to literally split hairs.

Best of luck, hopefully other commenters here can help you more than I have. But for real, be careful to not remove any more metal than necessary to get it back to good sharp usable condition.

Cool cool 👍

Personal opinion, what cleanup you've done already is pretty good. I wouldn't want to outright clean it up to flat machined metal though, as the more material you take off, the thinner and smaller the blade gets.

From what I see, I'd more or less just sharpen the edge (if it needs it, kinda looks like it could use it), oil it, and call it a day.

The old rust pitting? That just shows character and age..

I'm not exactly a knife restoration expert, but I've done a bit of cleanup, repairs and sharpening on some knives before.

A photo or three would help a lot...