Has anyone seen a vintage hollow ground straight razor where the hollow part has been ground away so that its cross section is a full wedge? I saw one on eBay where this might have been done. Why would this be done?
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Has anyone seen a vintage hollow ground straight razor where the hollow part has been ground away so that its cross section is a full wedge? I saw one on eBay where this might have been done. Why would this be done?
Wear & tear would be one answer. Excessive honing could be another. :)
Doesn't sound like anything desirable to me. The opposite is common, (Old wedges ground into hollows by professionals many decades ago) but grinding a hollow into a wedge? Can only be the result of abuse.
I see them often on the bay. And I have had the horrible sadness of having an extra hollow crack off a chunk of the bottom half. When that happens, what else would one do with it other than a letter opener, or, turn it into a wedge? :shrug:
Are you sure you did not see a microtome? Which is a surgical knife for slicing tissue samples, it is hollow on one side and wedge on the other.
how does one "grind a hollow into a wedge"? that sounds like like chiseling a statue back into the block it came from.
He means like this...
Leader- Made In Chicago Straight Razor | eBay
:rofl2:
The worst part of that link is that somebody bought it
Maybe they needed the scales :p
There is a worse one, that is still ongoing. But everybody seems to yell about linking to live auctions, and I dont want to drive the price up in case a member is watching it!