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12-19-2022, 02:17 AM #13
To be clear about context here, the reason I have this junk razor is because my dad has a bad habit of going to bad antique shops, and buying crap razors. Unfortunately when I convinced him to buy a much more expensive brand-new Dovo razor instead, this actually reinforced his initial habit because the Dovo came so badly warped from the factory that it was actually dramatically worse than most of the garbage antique shop razors.
The only reasons I want to attempt some restorations on it are:
1. To learn more about razors, e.g. what each part of the razor is, how they're shaped, why they're shaped that way, how to sharpen them correctly, how to grind them, etc.
2. To learn without putting any more useful razor at risk, as all of my attempts to hone my own more decent razors have failed so far and I don't want to be removing tons of good metal only to keep failing over and over again.
I have no attachment to this razor one way or the other, even from a buyer's remorse standpoint, as I didn't even buy it.
That out of the way, I don't actually understand what is so critically flawed about this razor. I understand the heel looks awkward and janked up in shape, but besides looking uncomfortable to shave with I don't see exactly how that causes any problems with the sharpening / honing process. I was making sure to pay close attention to the blade as I was attempting to hone it, it was definitely sitting nice and flat on the stone throughout the entire process, so I don't see how the stabilizer being slightly too thick is a critical problem or even a problem at all honestly.
Is the geometry of this razor so wrong as to make my practice honing it pointless? Does that explain why I haven't been able to get it in remotely hair-cutting shape? If so, why?