After some of the no all pleasant discoveries we had to make when the blade first got here (but remember, this is what protoypes are fore), polishing is now progressing nicely. Christophe has now taken the blade to the stage of polishing with the Nagura stone. Due to the hardness of the blade, compared to that of a Tamahagane one, it is not going as fast anymore as it was in the Chu-Nagura stage. Christophe is putting in a lot of elbow grease !