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01-13-2012, 06:18 AM #1lamecrow
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Grinding a full wedge
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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01-13-2012, 08:10 AM #2The Great & Powerful Oz
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Wear & tear would be one answer. Excessive honing could be another.
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01-13-2012, 09:09 AM #3Obsessive compulsive
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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.
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01-15-2012, 02:59 AM #4The First Cut is the Deepest!
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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?
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01-15-2012, 03:06 AM #5what Dad calls me
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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.
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01-15-2012, 06:29 AM #6Still Learning
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how does one "grind a hollow into a wedge"? that sounds like like chiseling a statue back into the block it came from.
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01-15-2012, 07:13 AM #7The First Cut is the Deepest!
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He means like this...
Leader- Made In Chicago Straight Razor | eBay
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01-15-2012, 07:26 AM #8At this point in time...
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The worst part of that link is that somebody bought it
Maybe they needed the scales
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01-15-2012, 07:32 AM #9The First Cut is the Deepest!
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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!
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01-15-2012, 05:05 PM #10lamecrow
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Not a full hollow but only a part hollow. I agree it would be worthless to grind away a full hollow.
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