Well since I've only got the mower in the last month, I haven't really implemented any sort of regular bedknife maintenance yet, just been getting it back to good shape. I have got the square sharp edge on it, and the proper edge back on the reel blades. The reel blades were blunt as hell when I got it and full of corrosion on the surface.. I'm guessing they weren't maintained, or it hadn't been used in years, so the first thing I did was to get rid of all that and restore the sharp edge. Then touched up the bedknife to get its edge right. Gave it a light lapping to get it all uniform.. judging by the way it cut, it's in pretty decent shape now, so it should just be a matter of maintaining that. I noticed when I first ran it that it was building up a lot of grass "crud" on the leading face of the blades, since I've done this, it hasn't built up any really.
