Quote Originally Posted by Bruno View Post
If you look in the workshop forum (the forge) there is a thread by someone who made what is essentially a wedge, with kamisori style grind.
It looks nice enough. It is certainly skillfully made. That said, I don't think there is an advantage or disadvantage to it.
Japanese are sticklers for traditional. They do it this way because that is how it was done, whereas we always to to build a better mousetrap, so to speak.
If someone was to try turning a western blade into a single bevel, a very heavy wedge type grind would be the sort of blade to do it with. If someone feels compelled to try this for whatever reasons they may have, I would encourage them to avoid doing it with any razor that has a full hollow grind. In fact, I'd recommend trying to get one of the surgical section razors that they used to make with a single concave side. I had a whole set of 6 of those with only a hollow grind on one side. I thought they were regular shaving razors and was unpleasantly surprised that they weren't. They were actually OK as shavers, but certainly not something to rave about. I ended up employing them in leather splitting and craft tasks.