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Yes, I doubt that there are any production bellied extra hollow ground razors being made today or any custom ones for that matter.

Bob

Yea, the critical part is done by hand even if the blade is 90% pre-shaped.

Bob

Your uncle Bob or mine? Might just better keep Bob, Bob, Bobbing along eh.

Bob

No, production razors are not made to craftsman/handmade standards. Most are produced using a mix of machine work and handwork. You want handmade then custom is the only choice. Yes, I'd try a cnc...

Really? http://www.cmsna.com/blog/2013/01/history-of-cnc-machining-how-the-cnc-concept-was-born/ .

Bob

Yea, yea CNC machining has been around for a looong time. It was used to machine major components for the Avro Arrow jet fighter back in the mid 1950s so it is not new and was around before that. It...

I say again where do you see CNC machining being currently used in Razor production? Today there is a mix of machine processing, stamping and swaging from what I can see in the vid from Dovo but also...

This CNC stuff is way OT from the original post. It also really does not matter because none of the makers use it to my knowledge. It probably deserves a separate thread though.

Bob

That easily could be also. At some point when you can't get enough highly skilled craftsmen or the market expands you might see it. They can screw that up too by paying crap to the worker who sets up...

Could be but there must be a reason why none seem to be doing it.

Bob

Yea, Dovo just did some adjusting to the number of models that will be available from them in the future to try and decrease the wait times for delivery. Seems young Germans don't find a 10 year...