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There is a ratio of ideal spine thickness to blade width that gives the razor the ideal edge. If a well experienced person hones the razor, ideally the spine and the edge wears at the same rate, and...

Yes, it suffered some ham fisted honing in its life. It’s from people that are honing with pressure on the toe, for reasons that I do not understand. I think in part it’s not just now that people...

Look through the what are you working on thread. There are razors there with heavy hone wear. The guys that repair that do so by no evening the hone wear, but by hand sanding the flatness, it seems...

Adjusting the spine of a razor is a very advanced skill. It is done mostly to correct grinding errors. It will wreck an otherwise serviceable razor if used to even out hone wear. Geometry is kind...

The shape of the edge is a smirk, that better than straight. Razors only went to straight edges to get high production thin ground razors. Historically, pre hollow grinding machines, every razor...

If you grind it, the geometry gets worse and the honing gets harder. Truly it’s all about the stroke. Even with the heel sitting down, if your stroke is correct it will hit 90% of the edge. Grind...

You have a few things going on. The spine wear, the heel amd if you do straight strokes you will never hit all of the edge. Gssixgun has a three video series on you tube on honing a smiling razor....