Originally Posted by
JoshEarl
I haven't read this entire thread yet, as I'm doing some catching up. But English, I gotta disagree with you again on this one. There isn't one "perfect" angle that all the manufacturers used, nor is the range of acceptable angles as narrow as you think.
The last razor that I made was a special project for someone. He asked me to intentionally make the spine thicker than normal. The "normal" edge angle range for razors seems to be 15 to 17 degrees. This one was almost 21 degrees. That would be like a razor that had been honed with tape for 100 years of normal use, to make up an impressive-sounding number. :)
It shaves just fine; he says it feels like a regular wedge. I've also made a couple of razors that were probably down in the 12 to 14 degree range, and they also worked just fine.
I understand that you have strong feelings on this, and that's cool. But watch the rhetoric. Saying things like "honing with tape is hiding the truth" is accusing an awful lot of people of either lying or being unethical. Don't change your position, if that's what you believe, but do be careful what you say about others.
Josh