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Thanks Trimmy. I am quite thick skinned and appreciate feedback, negative or positive. In fact negative feedback can be far more useful, painful though it may be to hear it. One learns far more...

Thanks - I am now starting to see the point. A heavy taping of the spine increases the hone angle sufficiently to create a secondary bevel (like on a plane blade). This of course makes the cutting...

Thanks - I am now starting to see the point. A heavy taping of the spine increases the hone angle sufficiently to create a secondary bevel (like on a plane blade). This of course makes the cutting...

Since your nom de plume is Euclid I would have though the least you could do was to provide a diagram to illustrate your point. If you study mine you will see that there was no geometrically...

This cross section diagram illustrates what I did to my razor. The red area indicates damage. a is the width of the honing area before and b is the width after. If I had taped the spine b would...

I agree that re heat treating would be problematic and a pretty drastic option, which is why one would want to avoid having to do it.

I reckon that I have doubled the width of the hone area at the...

OK here are some better pictures. I am genuinely interested to learn what you think I have done that is fundamentally so wrong, because as yet I can't see it.

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The hones have been...

Wow, it's great to see such passion for the protection of what were, when they were made, rather commonplace utilitarian objects.

I did look at some video clips made by guys who look like pros...

I appreciate your advice but sometimes I like to work things out myself from first principles (I have an engineering degree). If the spine is taped and only the edge is worked on then the geometry...

Which razor are your referring to? If it is the Hunter & Son I agree that I took off quite a bit from the spine and bevel but this was necessary to remove the bad chips from the blade. In fact the...

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Here are my razors (not a great pic - I will try to get a better shot). From the top:

- brand new carbon steel 5/8" Theirs Issard
- strange razor? with 5/8" blade which is flat on one...

I have a number of old razors which belonged to my father (and some possibly to his father too) and want to restore them. I am a fairly accomplished amateur woodworker and well used to to grinding...