Thread: simple honing under the stereo scope

Originally Posted by caltoncutlery

I don't think that what he calls a full hollow, is the same as say a vintage or new dovo full hollow. I saw a couple of his razors at the razor makers meet with blues last year, and noticed right off that they are nowhere near as thin as what blues normally grinds, or what you would think of when someone mentions "full hollow". now that was just a couple of his razors, so I don't know if he left those thicker, or if that is representative of his normal grinds or not, but the grinds on those would give much more latitude on the amount of pressure on the strop or stones that you could use.

Bingo ! Stiff & heavy quarter hollow razors, as made by most if not all modern cutlers have plenty of steel to play with & as you say "are just a chunk of steel". It is replaceable after it's use by date. Century old thinly ground razors are not.

Od course "not all burrs are created equal" but deliberately raising a burr that can be felt with a fingernail on a full hollow vintage razor is simply unnecessary, wasteful & can leave you with an uncomfortable, microchipped edge due to the burr breaking off unevenly.

I'm sure most of the guys posting here know what they're doing & aren't destroying razors but not everybody lurking to glean knowledge from these forums is in the same boat so opposing views are healthy. YMMV used to get used a lot here in the past