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01-31-2010, 03:11 PM #1
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I have a Wade and Butcher, that I've been shaving with, and when I first got it, I had to reshape the edge of the blade slightly. It had quite a frown to it. I got the edge flat on it, but like a couple other of my razors, I noticed that as I'm honing, the spine does not seem to want to lay flat on the hone, from one end of the blade to the other. That is to say that I have to employ a kind of rocking motion to maintain contact with the edge, the whole way across the length of the blade. Now I did manage to get an exremely comfortable shaving edge with this blade, but the problem is that the width of the edge bevel varies across the blade, and when I have to touch up the edge, it is extremely difficult to replicate the exact motions that I originally used to set the edge. Should I try to get a perfect width on the edge bevel, and if so, how do you do that when the blade does not want to lay flat on the hones? Also, what makes a blade lay funny on the hone like that? It doesn't appear that the blade is bent in any way, and I have had this problem with other razors as well.Any info will be helpfull.