Thread: Tapered blade?

I am looking at a filarmonica doble temple 14. On close inspection the blade clearly slopes from toe to heel. The seller states that this is a smiling blade made that way intentionally by the manufacturer. Is this true, or is it a fault caused by improper honing or something else?
Thank you. If you guys can shed some light on this it will be very helpful.

I don't recall seeing any tapered Fillis. Pix?

Here it is.

Note the hone wear on the spine, how it appears greater (wider) at the heal than the toe.
It's not huge, but enough to explain the taper.

All that I spy with my little eye is a slight smile...no taper.

When I think of a tapered blade, I expect one that's typically narrower at the toe than at the heel, and that doesn't appear to be the case here.

I thought a smile was a curve being thicker in the center and narrower at both toe and heal. This seems to be fairly straight until about an inch from the heal then angels up.
I now see the flatter spot on the spine above it.

Ah...I see what appears to be HEEL heavy wear that you mean. But I took that to be an illusion due to the straight lines behind it. Looking at the curve of the spine, though, the edge seems to closely parallel it??

Just wondering. Is the razor 'Shave Ready' right now? If not how much would you expect to lose on the blade to get it ready?
If your going to do it or if one of the pros on the site will do it... I'd wait until it's sharpened to see what the final blade measures .

The fact that the razor started it's life as a 8/8 and is now a 6/8 tells it's own tale, I wouldn't touch it as the razor was once a superb half hollow now it's barely a quarter hollow with that amount of metal gone it will shave very differently to the original 8/8 razor it once was.

I didn't realize it was originally 8/8.