Thread: Definitions..Wedge, 1/4, 1/2 full hollow

Wedges are really not hard to hone unless they have been poorly honed before or ground up pretty badly, ie, uneven and over flattened spine.......

Lynn

Originally Posted by Joe Lerch

The one you described sounds like a wedge with a frameback.

Yep; I've got a bit of a frameback fetish. Most of mine are unit framebacks or traditional composite framebacks with a heavy piece forming the tail, shank, and spine and a more-or-less rectangular blade attached. This is the only one one I've seen with a completely separate spine. The razor is a single thin piece of metal from the tip to the tail with a brass spine piece fitted on. I'm guessing that it was a wartime design that minimised the use of steel as much as possible. Great shaver though I do have to be careful closing it since the 1/16 gap between the scales leaves no room for error.

Originally Posted by adjustme69

Wedges are really not hard to hone unless they have been poorly honed before or ground up pretty badly, ie, uneven and over flattened spine.......

Lynn

The only problem I've had with real (flat) wedges is that they take so much work.

Originally Posted by mparker762

Yep; I've got a bit of a frameback fetish. Most of mine are unit framebacks or traditional composite framebacks with a heavy piece forming the tail, shank, and spine and a more-or-less rectangular blade attached. This is the only one one I've seen with a completely separate spine. The razor is a single thin piece of metal from the tip to the tail with a brass spine piece fitted on. I'm guessing that it was a wartime design that minimised the use of steel as much as possible. Great shaver though I do have to be careful closing it since the 1/16 gap between the scales leaves no room for error.

I own two wedges, one is a German one I got from John Crowley, which is superb and the other is an inexpensive Eskiltuna which is quite good. It seems to be an excellent design, probably more expensive to manufacture.

A real wedge should not really take any more time than any other razor unless it has the problems previously mentioned. The only difference for me when honing is that I use a 45 degree angled X pattern vs. 90 degrees.

Lynn

Originally Posted by adjustme69

A real wedge should not really take any more time than any other razor unless it has the problems previously mentioned. The only difference for me when honing is that I use a 45 degree angled X pattern vs. 90 degrees.

Lynn

Is that heel leading? What does the angle do?

It works ...........

Lynn