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Oh come on Glen, I was looking forward to continuing to try to solve the ongoing belly mystery!

So the spine thickness, if measured from one side to the other and on a 7/8 razor will be a little less than a quarter inch, is thicker in the middle than on either end? That means it is thinner at...

Please clarify belly out. Your reference to a swell makes me not sure what you are telking about. Is the spine thickness greater or lesser in the problem area. If it is lesser, than as I said...

Not until you are certain of the cause. All you would be able to do would be to grind away the rest of the spine until it matches the toe end, and that is going to result in a "huge" bevel along the...

By a "belly in the spine," do you mean a low spot? If you have access to a micrometer or caliper gauge, then you could measure it to confirm. Also, the marker test on both the bevel and the spine...

Where is the low spot on the blade? Is it on an end or somewhere in the middle? Is there a correspondingly greater degree of removal on the opposite side of the blade?