Handled well and properly without shortcuts as some people do just to preserve look but compromising the edge.
Which part of the progression was the standard vodka involved in? :)
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Handled well and properly without shortcuts as some people do just to preserve look but compromising the edge.
Which part of the progression was the standard vodka involved in? :)
I once saw pics of a custom razor I had made, after the owner tried to hone it. It was a smiling razor, with correct spine geometry: curved spine, which means that when the blade is on the hone, the spine is not 'flat'. The owner then kept honing in order to make it flat...
So sad...
I'm still mad at myself for trying to hone that JB before I knew how to handle a smiling blade like that.
Another reason not to flatten the spine is that now there is a wide bevel in the center of the blade and it will probably develop a frown or not hold an edge as well there as the steel is to thin in that area, this would be especially true on an extra hollow. As Bruno said some blades have a spine that is not flat due to the blade style
Except many or most vintage razors were smiling to begin with. Grinding them flat is destroying the razor for the sake of not having to learn to hone properly. That is just reinforcement of ineptitude.
Vintage sheffield for example was virtually always smiling. Ive never seen a really straight john barber, joseph rodgers or wade and butcher.