A couple months ago my wife and I were at a flea market and I was looking for...... you guessed it- straight razors! I found a wicket tucked away in a corner, which had a display case with one straight in it. The vendor was a crabby old German guy who was not very personable. He showed me the razor in the case, a vintage 5/8 round point with NO manufacture markings at all. Not being very impressed I asked him if he had any more. Then he pulled out a Safeway bag (a grocery store chain here in Canada) and dumped out probably 20 additional razors. As I checked them out one at a time I noticed a trend; all of his other razors were no more than 1/8" at most! As I continued my search I found every one to be absolute crap - rust, chips, you name it. After about five minutes the old German got mad when he sussed out that I wasn't going to buy any of his junk, berated me a bit, and then I left. So the question is of what use is a 1/8" razor? Were they made that way, or just mutilated version of a formerly nice razor?