Thread: A new box of tetnus

Well the Germans started hollow grinding earliest, what with them inventing the technology around 1870 if memory serves.

I might be corrected on that but I think the English soon followed, even regrinding previous wedges.

Us froggies were slow on the uptake. Well that wasn't the first time in the cutlery world, you'd think we would learn...
So while some of the best Smiths around by the end of the 1800s could do some pretty hollow grinds on the "big wheel", it's only around 1910 that we really started to use the technology.

But overall I'd say you have blades covering the whole 19th century

Awesome, thanks.

This is from strazors.com. Here's the link.
STRAZORS.com - all about classic razors - Carl Friedrich ERN, Solingen-Wald.

1893 was the year the hexa machine was introduced but I think you're right Aggelos that someone was toying with that technology earlier than that. As I recall the 1840s was when hollow grinding first started to appear. Anyway it's a very interesting article.


By the way, hexa translates as "witch" in English

Nice article. I do imagine the first step was hollow grinding by hand and then this guy made a machine to make it more precise and mass producable. But, a machine like that could have made hollow grinding more common.

So, I was off by 20-50 years.

I think you'll find that that is very close to the window of speculation with razors most of the time. Somewhere between 10 to 30 years.
By the way, remember that website. He's a member of SRP although I haven't seen him active for a while. Anyway, he has a lot of good information on razors. If you have a question about one that's a good place to start.