Thread: 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?

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?

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

The worst part of that link is that somebody bought it

Maybe they needed the scales

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!

Originally Posted by ezpz

how does one "grind a hollow into a wedge"? that sounds like like chiseling a statue back into the block it came from.

Not a full hollow but only a part hollow. I agree it would be worthless to grind away a full hollow.