Quote Originally Posted by earcutter View Post
think to all those razors we have all seen on eBay with worn down spines.
Whenever I see such razor I just move on to another which has had a competent owner

The problem with these things is that the razors are cheap and people are stupid. I imagine their thinking goes something like this: 'to make it sharp I just have to remove steel from both sides, it didn't get sharp, so I must not have removed enough steel'.
It doesn't occur to them that the edge is so delicate that it is not the amount of force, but the uniformity of the honing stroke that is the key to making it sharp.

So they completely ruin the edge in their first stroke and then follow up with thousands equally bad ones making it neither better nor worse, but just chiseling steel away from the razor and dumping the swarf into the drain.