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06-28-2008, 03:45 PM #1Aspiring Newbie
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Kind of a neat grind...
I've had a razor for a while with a grind I'm afraid I don't really know the name of. I'm pretty sure I've seen the same grind on some pictures of Wade and Butchers...
It's somewhat like a wedge, but with a sudden step in the thickness of the blade. Here, I drew a MSpaint picture to illustrate what I mean. :P
The one on the left is what I'm talking about, the one on the right is supposed to be a wedge, just to illustrate the difference.
Does anyone know what that's called?
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06-28-2008, 04:10 PM #2
I've seen it on Mappin & webb lancet razors.
Til shade is gone, til water is gone, Into the shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath.
To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day
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06-28-2008, 04:34 PM #3Velo Shaver
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That has got to be difficult to hone
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06-28-2008, 05:19 PM #4
Not really. They lay on the hone like any other razor, touching only with the spine and the edge.
Originally Posted by Cyclophile
Til shade is gone, til water is gone, Into the shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath.
To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day
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06-28-2008, 05:47 PM #5Aspiring Newbie
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Actually, I kind of thought it might have been done to make honing wedges and wedge like razors a little easier. It allows you to have a very stiff, heavy razor but have it hone more like a hollow ground than a wedge.
I thought it was pretty neat.
I wound up making a deal for it with a local fellow who does scales, as it has a break in the scales. Twenty bucks and when he rescales it, he sends me a picture so I can see it went to a good home. Though I regret the deal just a touch, I don't hand it off until Monday, so I get to keep looking at it and regret letting go of a razor that to my mind has a pretty rare profile to it.
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06-28-2008, 06:08 PM #6Senior Member
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I have a few of them some in 6/8 and a few in 7/8.most of the ones I have are in good condition,with a few as new.Some are marked Step Grind,and one of the 7/8 is marked concave grind.They are very easy to hone,and make great shavers,I sell them for 180.00/260.00 reworked depending on condition
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06-28-2008, 07:15 PM #7Aspiring Newbie
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I snapped a couple pics of the razor in question...
You can see the broken scales in the third...
Despite the scales, I think the fellow got a pretty darn good deal at twenty bucks.
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06-29-2008, 01:02 PM #8Senior Member
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That grind was known in Sheffield as a "Rattler". Don't know why.
Duncan.
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06-29-2008, 09:51 PM #9Senior Member
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I really like that, id pay more then 20for it! Is that a cat in the hat hat i see there
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