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    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.......

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    Quote 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.

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    Quote 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.......

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

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    Quote 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.

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    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.

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    Quote 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.

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    Is that heel leading? What does the angle do?

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

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