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Did you make that? I just noticed your link at the bottom.

That's lovely. What is it? I'm surprised to not see a bit of a bulge below the first hollow. Does it sing on the strop?

I should've added Heribert Wacker to the list of razor finishers earlier. Of the modern razors that I've seen, his look really nicely ground and finished. I've never bought one because they're...

When you say they are best with zowada style finishing, do you mean with tape and a microbevel? That's generally a sign of a razor that's not quite right. I've got a kikuboshi razor that's a dud, and...

That's what I'm thinking, and that's my kind of tooling. Even a double hollow setup could be done for fairly low money, but there is a chance of a pinch with a setup like that. Lots of momentum and...

I don't know where vintage razors are on the hardness scale, because how are you going to get a versitron to whack the razor without breaking it like thin ice, but...

.. sometimes (and I'm not...

I might draw some fire for saying this, but there are literally hoards of vintage razors that are nearly unused that are far better finished than those, and that includes the grind (so it's not just...