Thread: Grinds

It makes no difference IMO. Sure they're different to use, but you can get just as good a shave from one as to the other.

I have a fairly touch beard and sensitive skin (a bad combination!) and I like to use both wedges and full hollows and get great shaves from both.

Just personal preference really as to which one you go for...! All part of the fun!

In my experience, once sharpened properly, wedges do not feel as sharp when touched with a fingertip but they shave as well as hollows. I've thought that the feel must come from the different blade angle. Nuthing to do with the actual sharpness. Once i understood this i've been using mostly wedges.

Of the SR's I've found around here none have been wedges, but I figured at some point after I get the hang of using a straight I'd find a wedge and try it out. I don't think that either a wedge or a hollow would have any problem stropping. I would think that any lack of feel to the edge would be from having more steel at the edge and therefore wider bevel so it wouldn't be a fine an edge as hollow.