Wow, these are all great and hilarious responses. Thank you. I did think about hanging it in front of my face to remind me of my sins. But really, I need no reminders. I can just look around at the bowl carcasses on the floor to remember not to screw up.
I have a 12" lathe ( old though not one of the tiny new ones ) and I was turning outboard a 18-19" in platter, which was very out of round. I was thinking of just trueing up the faces and making a cutting board. But it had to turn very slow because my lathe was doing the tango and my motor was smoking. So I'm trying to true up the face in an area that only has wood for like 25 degrees. thump ............. thump ............ thump It was brutal. I tried ALLL the tools, I was getting the best results with this baby. Well, one of those thumps, thumped the wrong way.
So despite all the good and varied recommendations, I think I'll go with the "grind a new tang" I should have thought of that. These damn things cost $100+ . The metal should be M2. It's pretty old, mid 90's. From my about 3 careers ago but I knew to buy HSS back then. I also like the knife maker idea. Don't know one. but if I screw up this tang, then, well, I could meet one.
Lastly, there are a couple comments about the grind on there. I find talking about grinds and even angles to be very difficult. If some one could draw a picture of a) what I'm doing wrong, and b) what I should be doing that would be great.
One thing about angles is that they are always relative to a particular orientation. My grinder says 25 degrees is very steep i.e. a long bevel, and 50 is very blunt but I hear people talk about angles that must be talking about something close to opposite to that.
Anyway, thanks for all the comments.
Raif