Thread: Non-Parallel Grind?

While I'm waiting for my first shave-ready razor, I decided to buy a junk blade and practice taking off rust, removing scales, removing nicks, etc. Figured it'd be better to do all this for the first time on something I don't care about.

Anywho, the blade I bought was fun to play with, I used my friends whetstones to play with the edge and attempt to take nicks out and get a feel for what honing might be like (remember, I didn't care about doing this exactly properly, I just want to get used to the feel).

My question is, it looks like the thing has been ground way down so the blade is not parallel to the spine, the spine looks it, like somebody ground it themselves or honed it funny for a long time. I was wondering if there was an intentional reason someone would do this. Big chunk of blade missing?

I wanted a second opinion to my totally newbie eye:



By the way, here's a before, just for good measure: