[Most people aren't expecting him to be covered in scars either, to be fair. But he's nothing if not resilient, and it was important to him that he build his muscles back up after getting out of the hospital.]
Hmm. Understood.
[He reaches down to the side of the work table to find his file. It's far bigger than the kind you'd use on your hands.]
The next thing you want to do is file the blade at around a 30 degree angle, with equal strokes on each side. This is so when you sharpen it, it does so evenly. If you take a whetstone to the blade as it is, you're just battering the blade and making it brittle. We don't want that. Since this one is curved, think of it as three parts... Here, here, and here. We'll do one section at a time.
[He counts the strokes of the file as he goes.] ... And ten, and we move onto the second part... [He does this a little longer, until he flips the scythe around and repeats what he did on this new side, too.] Now that we've brought back the natural edge of the blade, we can work on the actual sharpening.
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Hmm. Understood.
[He reaches down to the side of the work table to find his file. It's far bigger than the kind you'd use on your hands.]
The next thing you want to do is file the blade at around a 30 degree angle, with equal strokes on each side. This is so when you sharpen it, it does so evenly. If you take a whetstone to the blade as it is, you're just battering the blade and making it brittle. We don't want that. Since this one is curved, think of it as three parts... Here, here, and here. We'll do one section at a time.
[He counts the strokes of the file as he goes.] ... And ten, and we move onto the second part... [He does this a little longer, until he flips the scythe around and repeats what he did on this new side, too.] Now that we've brought back the natural edge of the blade, we can work on the actual sharpening.
Are you following so far?