Thread: Typical straight razor sharpness??

Ok so I have less than 6 months of shaving under my belt and much less time with honing experience. I have a handful of razors and I have been trying to learn to hone my own razors. I get decent shaves with the sharpness of the razors that I hone myself but I know that my honing skills still need improvement to get the blades even sharper. I did acquire a couple razors (from other people) that were supposed to be "shave ready" so I have tried to use those as a standard to compare my own honing with. Well just yesterday I received two razors in the mail that I had bought off Ebay. They are supposedly NOS. The manufacturer is Richard Herder (Solingen). One is a 9/16" and the other is a 5/8". I believe that they are not THAT old. The first thing I noticed is that they seemed to be more "lightweight" and they just seemed to be not quite up to the quality of my Wade and Butcher and other older razors. The blade thickness seemed "thinner" if that makes any sense. They just seemed cheaper made. Maybe just my imagination though. They seemed to be "shave ready" so I stropped them both and proceeded to shave. I shave tested both of them. Well during my shave I came to the conclusion that these blades were sharper than anything I have used yet. They are scary sharp! I would put them at the sharpness level of a double edged razor blade. These two new blades are even sharper than razors that came to me "shave ready" (from other people) so it's not just the comparison to my honed blades that I am seeing. Since I do not have much experience with the sharpness levels of straight razors I am wondering if these Richard Herder's sharpness is typical of a well honed straight razor. Should a well honed straight razor's sharpness be equal to the sharpness of a double edged razor blade? Or is this not typical? Are these two blades so sharp because they are possibly a "thinner" more "lightweight" blade?
Any insight on this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Tony