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Can someone explain roughly why grinding the spine down (in theory, I'm not going to try it) would ruin the geometry? I made a picture showing what I mean, the way I understand it the only reasonable way to solve the pictured problem would be to even out the spine until its semi-even, otherwise the blade would always sit so severely unevenly on the stone that it would take a high level of skill to hone it into reasonable shape, on both sides, every single time you tried to hone it. The red lines in the picture are roughly what you would get with leaving the blade flat on the hone vs the purple line being if you managed to compensate for it.
I suppose it is actually a correct assumption that it is really hard to get this right and that this razor is essentially garbage to a beginner, but I'm still baffled by the idea that grinding it in theory would mess up geometry.