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09-25-2019, 07:23 PM #1
Well that would make sense at least as to why they ground back the spine. I'm thinking whoever this lot came from originally must have been either a really experienced hobbyist or a professional repair person. I would not have thought that that WB was a regrind.
I'm with you Tom. I really love the look of the wedges, especially the barber notched ones but I just don't care for the shave from them. It's a little stiff for me. I would have them as thin as a DE blade if it weren't too floppy in an SR.The hollow-er the better as far as I'm concerned
I honed both of those last night and shaved with them this morning. 1/2 with one razor and 1/2 with the other and they both shaved nicely but the re-shaped WB shaves a little better. That Elliot is so stinking long It's wider than my 3-in strops. I hate stropping in an X pattern. That's why I got the 3-in wide ones.Last edited by PaulFLUS; 09-25-2019 at 07:26 PM.
Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend. PR 27:17
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09-25-2019, 08:32 PM #2
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Thanked: 4822The x pattern is better for the blade no matter the width. There was crazy debate about it many years ago, and it is most important with pastes to x but allegedly it makes a difference with regular linen and leather too.
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09-25-2019, 08:42 PM #3
Indeed, so many just had to have that 3-incher when they began.
Lots have gone to the 2 1/2 because of what Rezdog related. The X is the bomb.
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09-25-2019, 09:40 PM #4
You know, I own a business. I'm a skilled tradesman and I would rather hire someone who doesn't know anything and train them myself than to hire someone who learned it the wrong way. At least what I consider the wrong way.
I may have done this same thing to myself because I had been shaving with a straight razor for years before I ever read an article or looked at a forum or anything.I don't think there ever was such a thing when I learned and l learned how to shave, hone and strop by trial and error. It's hard to unlearn old habits.
In fact I didn't even come here looking for that. I came here looking for information on old razors and discovered along the way that there was other information about shaving and honing etc. I was always independent I guess. My dad didn't even teach me how to shave with a straight or strop. I just watched him and did what it looked like he did. I have no idea if he even did it rightLast edited by PaulFLUS; 09-25-2019 at 09:44 PM.
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09-25-2019, 10:05 PM #5
I guess I should add to that that I'm not saying I don't want to learn new things. In particular stopping Is kind of a muscle memory issue. Johnny Winter was quoted as saying if you hit a wall playing guitar put the guitar down... Not for a couple of days or a week but for a couple of months. I suppose the idea is that your mind gets program to a certain thing and you almost have to forget some of it.
Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend. PR 27:17
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09-25-2019, 10:34 PM #6
I hear you. I am just loaded with doing things the way I learned them. Good to be around those with different ways.
I kick myself all the time being around these guys. BUT, if it ain't broke?
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09-25-2019, 11:23 PM #7
The minute you stop learning, you are dead.
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