I need to examine mine under a microscope, but I'll be darned if the edge is hollow ground.
Marketing blurb.
Happy to be wrong.
I need to examine mine under a microscope, but I'll be darned if the edge is hollow ground.
I've only got a 10x loup but on inspection of a new blade it looks hollow ground to me but please check for yourself with your microscope. P.I need to examine mine under a microscope, but I'll be darned if the edge is hollow ground.
Marketing blurb.
Happy to be wrong.
I don't know about back then but adverts can misdirect you but not outwardly lie.I need to examine mine under a microscope, but I'll be darned if the edge is hollow ground.
Marketing blurb.
Happy to be wrong.
My "microscope" is a thingy I clip on the camera of my phone. Nothing too fancy... I call it "microscope " though. I like to think Robert Hooke would have loved to have access to it in 1700... maybe his stuff was better...I've only got a 10x loup but on inspection of a new blade it looks hollow ground to me but please check for yourself with your microscope. P.
Good point. I let them off on a technicality then.Greetings
I think you will find the statement hollow ground to be somewhat misleading but factually true.
If the edge is put on with a revolving abrasive wheel or a large diameter revolving abrasive belt no matter what the diameter of the wheel or belt it will give a hollow ground edge even if the hollow is so ludicrously gentle/shallow to be imperceptible, the edge is still hollow ground; certainly for the purpose of advert speak!
Regards
Dick.
Still better than my 10x loup and bad eyesight I too would be happy to be proved wrong, all I've got to go on is the old ER literature and what I can make out with my loup. Regardless, I still prefer these old blades over the new Gem blades and with daily Stropping they just last and last, I stopped counting the number of great shaves I was getting from one blade! Now that's value for money! P.My "microscope" is a thingy I clip on the camera of my phone. Nothing too fancy... I call it "microscope " though. I like to think Robert Hooke would have loved to have access to it in 1700... maybe his stuff was better...
You guys make my head hurt ...
Yes the Gem blade gets much better after the first shave. P.Did not know where to put this question.
Do Gem ss blades get smoother after a couple of shaves. I have had 5 shaves with a 1914 and it seems smoother than to begin with.
Or am i just getting better at using the razor.
I didn't say that P.So I'm still crap.
Just blade getting better