Hey all you newbies. Here is a great razor to practice bonding on.
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...988037&alt=web
Nice even bevel and spine.
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Hey all you newbies. Here is a great razor to practice bonding on.
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...988037&alt=web
Nice even bevel and spine.
Well whoever honed it to this condition must have never head of lapping their hones, or used on of those half rounds for chisels.
I guess you can hone on dished hones!!! I,m sorry I just couldn't help myself. Tc
Pristine Condition
Just when you thought you'd seen everything.
Bob
I sometimes wonder if someone would ever photoshop something like this, just for the reaction it would get.
Grinding wheel or belt being held by the wrong hands sometime in it's life... :(
"Note the shape of the cutting edge" Wow! :td
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Originally Posted by gssixgun
Yeah . . puts me in mind of one of the vintage blades I saw this weekend. Some idiot had taken a Dremel or other grinding type tool and marked their initials on the blade through the patina.
Makes it easier to get into the hollows on your neck, natch. :rofl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
Reminds me of the eraser knife my father used to use. I bet it will erase your whiskers.
Here's another one by Wade and Butcher:
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At least he called it a "not so straight razor."
The scales look like they are in pretty good shape, if they don't have insect damage on the inside.
Or convex. Some people are said to be really good at making matched pairs of those.Quote:
Originally Posted by tcrideshd
It's a pretty good question why it ended like this. Whoever ground it to this shape probably wasn't planning to sharpen it.
It's a classic example of what can happen to your razor if you don't tape first. :beer2:
A classic example of using a concave hone :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Hirlau
I really don't know what you guys are complaining about. That would probably shave a face like mine just fine.
