Originally Posted by
DaveW
Coming at it from the other direction, having gone through dozens of vintage razors, I bought my first (and probably only - I'm cheap) dovo last week, new. It (a bismarck) has something that is difficult to find in a lot of vintage shavers, a good bit of weight but at the same time a thin delicate straight bevel that's easy to hone.
At any rate, any decent razor can be brought to a great edge as long as the last abrasive is similar hardness or harder than the carbides in the razor (chromium oxide III, aluminum oxide, diamonds, silicon carbide, ...). The hardest abrasives, diamond aside maybe, tend to be some of the cheapest available, too.