Quote Originally Posted by Utopian View Post
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's what I'm talking about! Didn't know manuals advocated this, but it seemed like it was on purpose, and the result was good. So this totally makes sense.