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Okay - I guess this should have happened a long time ago, but I'll put what my definition of a fin and an edge would be.

For a straight razor, an edge would be the intersection of two planes...

Sorry to burst the bubble Jimmy, but that wasn't the real deal. It comes from the earlier half of last century when some guy who was a patent writer or proof read technical documents or something...

Bart - I think he was laughing because of this:

YouTube - Rockwell Retro Encabulator

I understood what you meant, and I think you worded it properly. Maybe it's that I'm inundated with this...

Nope! Wasn't singling you out at all. I've just heard the term for a long time. The only post that I can think of is when Pam (Yuzuha) on Knifeforums (that lady is an amazing source of info, btw)...

Verhoeven wasn't studying razors, was he? In the world of knife sharpening, a burr is a beautiful thing sometimes. It is one of the stepping stones on the way to sharpness, whereas in straights...

So I keep reading about a "fin" at the edge of a straight razor. I kinda think it's BS. If there was a fin at the edge of the straight razor, then it would be so thin that it would fold over super...