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03-10-2018, 01:38 PM #1Senior Member
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With some of the perfectly forged and ground customs out there I would have to respectively disagree.
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03-10-2018, 02:07 PM #2Senior Member
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I tend to agree, I have several BBRW’s razors along with Wacker, Koraat and a few others and the grinds look very good so you would think that a maker like TI would take note. Originally Posted by markbignosekelly
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I'd bet companies like TI had to start from scratch wrt their workforces. When SR production began again there could not have been too many of the old skilled blade grinders left to be able to teach apprentice blade grinders. Grinding is a skill/art learned over time so if the foregoing is true it is no wonder some of the grinding is subpar. Then there is the push to produce blades fast to feed a newly expanding market. That is a bad combination for achieving a high standard of QC. The new production TIs should be a lot better than they were 3-5 years ago.
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03-10-2018, 03:38 PM #4Senior Member
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You're completely right Originally Posted by markbignosekelly
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03-10-2018, 08:02 PM #6Junior Member
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When I purchased my TI used I noticed that the blade edge was uneven. I thought that it was due to the previous owners attemp at sharpening it. The edge was in bad shape. You certainly couldn’t shave with it. After sharpening the edge is still a bit wonky, but it shaves really well.
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03-10-2018, 10:24 PM #7illegitimum non carborundum
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I'm not clear if you are referring to the edge or the bevel.
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03-10-2018, 11:19 PM #8Junior Member
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Yikes, sorry. Bevel-uneven. The kids were running around, wife speaking, blah, blah....chaos.... the usual
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03-11-2018, 12:35 AM #9
Not unusual for modern TI. Maybe their motto should be 'ugly grinds, great shaves. Give us your money - and a lot of it!'
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03-11-2018, 06:36 AM #10The Great & Powerful Oz
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I don't know if you're serious or not but the faults aren't that frequent. No more than Dovos. Originally Posted by Steve56
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