Thanks cbwx34! It is a Spyderco Pacific Salt, one of the larger models with the H1 steel. I’ve usually had really decent luck with the Japanese made Spyderco grinds, but my buddies seems a bit off. I’ll have to double check on a few of those things when I get back to the house later, but I’m not sure I fully understand the solution (and I can assure you, it’s probably me 😉 ) I was originally intending to sharpen out the unevenness, but if the angle from factory is already lower than 15, how can I ever get it back to 15? Bear with me here, I studied literature in college, but are you saying that if I just stick with 15 on both sides and keep going, eventually the two will even out?