Thread: Warped Blade!! :(

Hello all again,

I hope I'm posting this in the proper forum. Here goes,

I have a German Fromm 5/8 Straight which I purchased a couple months back. I'm relatively new to straight razor shaving but I have previously honed a 5/8 Dovo by setting the bevel on a 1k and working up to polish on my 8k Norton which passed my personal shave test easily. So I'm sure the problem here is not my technique.

The Fromm was shave ready on purchase and I have used it for a while now, but it eventually had to be honed. So to the 4k I went and noticed to my horror that ( right hand dominant ) on the pull strokes the edge and spine contacted fine but on the push strokes the toe end of the blade does not contact the stone from about the middle of the edge to the toe. Thinking it was my posture I attempted to meet the toe edge to the stone and noticed that now the heel edge was no longer contacting the stone

I've tested it flat on a machine grade steel surface and the same results so it isn't my stones. The blade is warped

My question to those with higher knowledge is this; how common of a problem is this and did I get suckered on buying it, and is there any way to remedy this problem? Or if it is common, what do more skilled persons do to hone a warped blade?

Oh and the warp is so minimal that, like I said, on the convexed edge side using the marker test during honing I'm getting uniform bevel except in the middle where it thins down a bit obviously because of the curve in the spine. Same on the concaved edge side ( now the warp side curving up to the ceiling if that helps ) the toe edge marker barely even gets scratched off by the hone

Sorry for the long post but this is driving me insane.