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Thanks for this! The illustrations in the barber manual are different than those in the wiki. I can see how the razor in the first picture of the OP matches the full hollow in that manual. I am...

That's what I've been going by too, but that is the problem...
If you look at the first picture in the first post, even if you adjust for perspective that grind starts no more than 3/4 of the way up...

I don't want to take too much away from the OP here, but...
I've looked at those several times as well. There still does not appear to be any mathematical relationship. It sure seems as if it could...

Double hollow based on the double shoulder? I was going off the toe end of the blade, it appears as if the grind was done with a single wheel.


That sure doesn't look full hollow to me.
It's...

Someone correct me if I'm wrong here...

I've been spending a lot of time lately trying to understand this, and trying to determine where the terms come from.

As best as I can tell those blades...