Thread: My Bergischer Lowe was ground crooked!

I've had this for over a couple of months now and just noticed that the toe was ground crooked! This normal? Below are the worst cell phone camera shots ever but I won't have my real camera available for over a week and I couldn't wait... It's the very toe/end of the blade where it's ground from the spine to the edge. If you look straight on at the blade it is the cross section. There's an "apex" where the curve out from the spine changes to a curve in to form the spanish point. That apex/line is crooked. Looks like it should have gone straight across the widest part of the spine. Less noticeable (can't see it in the pics at all) is that the flat is not square with the length of the blade. It's like if you were going to cross section the blade and you leaned to the left a bit while you were doing it.

Is this typical?... The gold wash on the very end is kind of rough/not very well done either. Sort of like they just dabbed at it one time and got a spot on there.

The first pic is from the side and shows where the "apex" is. it's a very well defined line/edge on the end of the blade. The second pic is straight on and you can see that the line/edge is not straight across/level.

[Edit] Tried my scanner just for kicks. It's a lot better (didn't think it would work with the cover wide open. and no, the blade is not all beat up. dust/dirt on the glass and oil on the blade)

Dude, that sucks. That razor was expensive, wasn't it? Too bad you can't send it back.

I hope it shaves good...

I have an older one and a fairly new one. The quality control has definitely gone down over time. the point on the new one wasn't ground as nice and I noted similar sloppiness with the goldwash.

They are still one of my favorite shaving razors, which is why I got a second. But the costmetics were a little dissappointing.

A fine example of Friday afternoon work. Should've been sold as a second IMO, but at least it shouldn't affect the shave.

That part of the razor is called the "GROB" and unfortunately it looks to have been ground particularly poorly.

You may find this internet information interesting.

Open Razors

The article gives you a feeling of just how skill full the razor industry was in its hay day in Sheffield England.

I wonder if perhaps they were supposed to be made that way? A style for the spanish point?

I had one of the worked back spanish point Friodurs, and the tip was exactly as you have shown.

I think that's pretty typical on notch point razors. I have some vintage notch point razors like that. It has no ill effect on shaving. Unless it adversely affected shaving personally I would have no issue with that.

Chris L

I agree with Chris that it looks like that on a ton of razors, new and old and will not affect the shave. The 'filework' is also just as poorly done in my opinion– looks about as bad as what's on those NOS friodurs, all crooked and uneven. That's Dovo for you.

It's entirely aesthetics. It shaves wonderfully, and mechanically it's perfect (open/close resistance could be just a little stiffer). I guess you could look at it as adding character. You definitely know it was shaped by hand

Originally Posted by Quick

It's entirely aesthetics. It shaves wonderfully, and mechanically it's perfect (open/close resistance could be just a little stiffer). I guess you could look at it as adding character. You definitely know it was shaped by hand

Good perspective. I say the same thing about my scars <g>