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This is it. The 2" dip is still causing me problems regularly, and it is difficult to avoid it because it requires even metal removal. And if you put pressure on the part of the blade that is...

That's 2", and this explains perfectly what is going on. Btw, if you take a piece of wood it is very easy to simulate this in a more exaggerated manner.
Take a piece of wood and make it wedge...

Eh... no. Nononono. If you want to see what happens, try it. You'll only do it once :D
There are 2 reasons why you don't want to make the hollow of the blade exactly the same as the rounding of the...

Exactly. A golfer once told me: driving is for show, putting is for dough.

The same applies to making straight razors. Anyone can produce something that looks like a razor, from a distance, and...

Don't forget to make a mark!
And how htick did you leave the edge?

Not writing a book, but I am writing a long wiki article on making a razor from scratch.

Which book?

Looking good. Did you taper the tang a bit, or otherwise make the tang a bit thinner than the spine?
It doesn't have to be much, but without it you'll forever have geometery issues during honing....

Further about this topic: even the Germans in Solingen, notorious for using SI for standardizing everything under the sun, useeights and sixteenths of an inch for measuring the width of their razors....

You want to taper the handle as well. Under no circumstances should you have a tang /handle that is exactly as wide as the spine.
Once you start honing, the spine will get thinner. Not by a lot, but...