May have been what it took to correct the spine to edge relationship. Neither looks bad to me. YMMV. :shrug:
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May have been what it took to correct the spine to edge relationship. Neither looks bad to me. YMMV. :shrug:
Another thing to consider is that a lot of people prefer a smile at the toe. In fact some of the barber's manuals explain hone to deliberately hone a smile into the razor. What some consider to be the result of bad honing others would consider to be excellent honing. Keep in mind these razors were simple tools, to be used and modified as needed in order to get a simple task done as quickly and as well as possible. Their owners were not worried about the their re-sale value a century later.
That is what happens when a barber uses a barbers hone held in his hand and uses a swirling motion to hone it in a hurry. Barbers hones are relatively small and when held in the hand it only allows the front half of the blade to be honed. Barbers viewed a razor as a replacable tool and were more interested in expediance.
I'm a butt head. I measured them again tonight under better light and they aren't actually narrower at the point, so they really aren't too bad LOL - the extra honewear/wider bevel on the edge at the point created the illusion it was narrower to my mediocre eyesight (and the mild sway on the helje doesn't help).
When using an X-pattern you risk overhoning the toe, especially if you use a finger of the other hand to stabilize the blade on the hone.