Thread: Video Alert

Originally Posted by thp001

You can see this clearly at the 4.50 mark but at that stage of the grinding he is removing metal from inside the faces which creates the full hollow grind so it wouldn't actually affect the heel that much. It's the bigger wheels he uses before that where if he didn't reach the heel it would be more of an issue but I couldn't tell for sure. I'm not sure how it was then but if you look at a modern drop forged razor blank, the hollowing of the blade is put in at forging, When grinding, if you're bumping up against the forging line between the hollow at the heel and the tang, in that case you would leave the heel thicker, or grind away too much in front. How much of this is to do with the stabilizer I don't know, obviously the German makers felt that you needed the stabilizer there but I think a shoulderless grind is superior.

I totally agree on the shoulderless.

I did watch a load of Ken Hawley films yesterday, really interesting.. Started off with films on Laguiole knives

Interesting .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfwsUmWjQUI&t=958s