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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mtngunr" data-source="post: 4387435" data-attributes="member: 46104"><p>Razors are not very thick knives to start with, and hollow grinding was a sometimes yes, sometimes no thing. I have even read old metallugical analysis of steels from old razors where it was specifically mentioned the razors were not hollow ground, which did not suprise me what with the knowledge of razors in own family being later hollow ground (in hopes of improvement? Following latest fad? Longer lasting edge? Easier to lay over for more acute edge?). Mass production did not come in until the industrial revolution, along with the ability to mass produce hollow grinding with required belts, wheels, work stations. Any time I see a very old razor that is hollow ground, my first thought is, "Was it made that way, or something done later back when most any sizeable town had a cutler and shop who could do the job?" My German and Swede great-grandparents had the job done in St Louis, during their days of travel from the eastern seaboard to gateway to the west, before trying North Carolina and then back when the husband died, and then down to Alabama with the then young adult children buying and working land in coastal Alabama. And the family razors moved with them, which razors assuredly were German and started as wedge ground.</p></blockquote><p></p>