Search:

When a blade is hardened it is done so according to a formula for the particular alloy steel being hardened, and the tempering process is likewise dependant on the alloy. I am not sure if it would...

"perhaps the issue is honing them and not the edge itself..."

Sounds like the answer to me! As for the W&B steel being soft at Rc58 - that isn't really that soft. A razor with a Rockwell 58...

"Aside from all the fuss, Pumas and Dorko's are nice looking razors, but edge retention? Maybe not all they are cracked up to be...."

You are kidding - right? Am I going to have to call you...

This actually restarts an old topic but what you say here does not make any sense. How can you possibly think that by thickening up the spine with tape and decreasing the angle between the thickness...

You are absolutely correct! I had a slight case of mid afternoon cranial rectal inversion. The rest of what I said is fact though. The W&B he had checked was carbon steel not alloyed with anything...

I can't say always because I don't know it to be an absolute fact; however, I believe that most if not all Solingen razors which survived WWII and definitely the ones post WWII - are in fact a tool...