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Did you try to hone the smile out? A smiling blade is by no means a bad thing.

Sounds like a Reynolds to me. I've had a few with such hard steel that I've sworn off buying any more of them. I'm sure once they're ready they'll hold an edge forever, but it's so much work to get...

Hm, maybe someone was trying to imitate the W&B's FeatherEdge design. Or maybe it's an incomplete or primitive regrind. Do keep us posted as you clean her up.

Those are very cool scales. I would guess that it was a rescale, though, as oppose to the originals (not that there's anything wrong with that, it adds its own bit of history to the razor).

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