Hey everyone,

Got a strange question here, maybe it's a stupid question I don't know. I just got this 1907 Joseph Rodgers set the other day, and they look great, like NOS under the water spots, I see no hone wear on the spines at all. The set has a box with a silver shield saying it was awarded to so and so in 1907 in Belfast, so it appears this guy treated it like an award and never used it but got it wet one day and left it for 100 years or so..

Now the thing is, when I lay the blades down on a glass surface I notice the spine isn't flush with the edge on the surface.. the edge is straight as an arrow, but the actual spine seems to thicken or bulge out at the shoulder?? This isn't the case with my Henckels for instance, which is also NOS, at that point near the shoulder you can see it was ground flush with the rest of the spine from the factory - so as to lay flat when honing..

So now I'm wondering why all 6 of these seemingly new razors have this bulging spine? And what should I do now? Hone 'around' the bulge, or grind that portion of the spine flush with the rest?

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated..