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    Smile what brands of razors are still being made like dovo,dorko,filiarmonic,boker,henckle?

    Are they being stamped out or some still done by hand?THANK YOU.

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    Dovo, Thiers Issard, Boker to name a couple, and by nature they must be done by hand.... I don't think you'd ever get consistency trying to get a machine to auto-make a grind or a bevel
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    Quote Originally Posted by ecormier View Post
    Dovo, Thiers Issard, Boker to name a couple, and by nature they must be done by hand.... I don't think you'd ever get consistency trying to get a machine to auto-make a grind or a bevel
    Yea, Dovo just did some adjusting to the number of models that will be available from them in the future to try and decrease the wait times for delivery. Seems young Germans don't find a 10 year apprenticeship to learn how to grind razors an attractive proposition. So hardly stamped out like cookies, much hand work is involved.

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    With todays CNC technology it would be very simple to make a perfect Blade in a matter of minutes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pixelfixed View Post
    With todays CNC technology it would be very simple to make a perfect Blade in a matter of minutes.
    Could be but there must be a reason why none seem to be doing it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobH View Post
    Could be but there must be a reason why none seem to be doing it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pixelfixed View Post
    With todays CNC technology it would be very simple to make a perfect Blade in a matter of minutes.
    That is great for knives and the lovely hollow grinds they often get. You have all seen vids of harmonic vibration getting out of control. If a thin razor "sings" that is vibration and if it happens during a grind the sing is modified into a harmonic oscillation which, unfortunately will twist and wiggle the blade. When that happens, the blade will basically explode. The touch of a master grinder detect any vibration other than abrasion and modifies the stroke and speed of advance. A pre-hardening grind would be a different story and the metal is not hard.

    So even renewing a blade, if I hear a singing I "STOP' and do a different approach.

    Here's a video of the singing vibration on a plate. Imagine a XXii razor!

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    That was undeniably, completely utterly cool and I did not know that...

    Thanks Geezer!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Geezer View Post
    That is great for knives and the lovely hollow grinds they often get. You have all seen vids of harmonic vibration getting out of control. If a thin razor "sings" that is vibration and if it happens during a grind the sing is modified into a harmonic oscillation which, unfortunately will twist and wiggle the blade. When that happens, the blade will basically explode. The touch of a master grinder detect any vibration other than abrasion and modifies the stroke and speed of advance. A pre-hardening grind would be a different story and the metal is not hard.

    So even renewing a blade, if I hear a singing I "STOP' and do a different approach.

    Here's a video of the singing vibration on a plate. Imagine a XXii razor!

    YGMV= your guess may vary
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