Quote Originally Posted by zepplin View Post
Did you notice in their description:

"A guarantor for the highest quality is the successful "finger nail test". Only the edge of a perfectly ground blade can be visibly bent on your thumbnail and returns immediately to its original shape when released. Cheap blades are too thick to do this, and for that reason they are refered to as "axes" by the experts."

* Interesting! I've never seen the TNT referred to in this way, ..."can be visibly bent on your thumbnail and return to it's original shape..." then, of course, the comment about cheap blades and axes, etc., etc. Hummmm, I actually prefer some of those axes, i.e., "Wedges", 1/4 Hollow, ...

These statements in their description seem odd to me - What do you think?

Steve
An interesting thing happened this Friday. I stopped by the local knife sharpener and then my barber to show them some of my razors and they both performed this thumb nail test. Both the knife sharpener and the barber told me that barbers believed that an edge that wouldn't flex wouldn't shave well. I told them that wasn't necessarily true and they were both surprised. Apparently, this used to be one criterion of a good shaving razor.