Quote Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors View Post
Back to your razor. Look at the width of the edge bevel. Now I know I have said many times that it is unimportant, and it doesn't have to be consistent, but if you see one side with a very narrow bevel surface at the center of the frown and very wide at toe and heel on one side, and the opposite on the other, you have a bent razor or one that is honed or ground to essentially be bent. The bend can be more pronounced away from the spine or because of normal hone wear to the spine you don't see the bend because superficially it is not there. With such razors it is sometimes possible to bend them back but not really a newbie operation for obvious reasons. Anyway sometimes a razor is bent or warped in such a manner that a frown is natural but on one side the frown center will get honed, and not the other side.
What you've described is exactly what happened w/ my Dovo. From day 1, I noticed the bevels weren't even from heel to toe, and they mirrored each other. Where one side had a deep frown in the middle, it was mirrored on the other side. I thought there was something off with the grind and/or spine, but never bother about it. I recently tried to correct the spine, which was part of it's demise...

I've checked the spine on both razors in question here, and they are nearly perfect against a straight edge. On the black handled straight edge that I've been focusing on, there isn't that same sign of uneven wear due a bent spine. The bevels aren't perfectly even from heel to toe, only very slightly off, not drastic. I think that may be partially due to uneven pressure?