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01-19-2015, 07:26 PM #6
If I understand your question correctly, it is really just at the whim of the manufacturer. A lot of blades marked 'medium hollow' will have varying degrees of hollowness to them (defined by the width that is ground out and the radius of the grinding wheel). When we say quarter hollow or half hollow etc, it is really just a rough guide and not standardized, at least to a precise extent with razors from the 1800s. In fact, you will see blades marked 'concave' that are hollow ground, and others marked 'concave' that are the concave style seen a lot in older Sheffield razors where the grinding was turned 90 degrees to hollow out a smaller area on the lower half of the blade.