I hope you can arrange a return with the seller and that all works out well that way.
Thanks for your input and I appreciate your experience, but I'm sorry, I find the spine being ground off of a brand new, high end razor unacceptable. It doesn't matter who did it. Grinding even further as a solution is not something that I'm willing to consider. The seller won't return my calls or my emails and before the end of the day, I will stop payment on the CC and do it the hard way. Here are pictures of new TI razors (including mine) from various sites and I don't seem to notice the excessive hone wear and wonky bevels. I don't believe that all TI razors come to the retailers in the condition that mine did. If so, it is still unacceptable. False advertising at the least.
Wasn't implying that you've no right to return, Alpster, only saying I think what u see/received is indeed what they made, so vendor likely did what they were told by you...saw similar too many times to believe otherwise. You would open up the factory seal and wipe off the Ballistol and there was occasionally a funhouse mirror awaiting you (sort of the impetus to individual pics of stock to hopefully take the wind out of the return sails, though in the end it was just the genesis for the newer "initially upon seeing the individual pictures I was pleased...however, upon personal inspection, I discovered _____, which displeases me" genre).
Is tang stamped? Maybe the stamping causes out of true alignments and they grind down further to hopefully compensate? Just guessing here, I don't really know why this happens, but was historically able to make all razor sharp and straight via the 'rolling-X' and they still had that superior thinness, albeit with accompanied reduction of max width to get there.
I was always more mad when the bevel as supplied wouldn't cut arm hair, and in some cases would take an hour of shop time lost to achieve so...that did indeed boil my blood, and until last yr w/ some Bokers had not once seen it occur w/ any others despite occurring repeatedly with them. Their zeniths, however, were the highest.
I,ve seen loads of ti,s look like that. Not many have an even bevel . I,ll bet that came from ti like that. I no phill at classic shaving once told me he asked ti not to hone the razors he ordered due to the fact the bevels were never true . They still honed them when they sent them out to Phil . That's the reason I,d never have a ti yours looks real bad I,d send it back and get a refund.
having personally gone through about 20 'new' Thiers Issard razors, I can say that their quality from the factory is a variable function.
Some are perfect and some are not.
Some issues arise at factory and some at the reseller, whether handling, prep or shipping issues.
I've learned to expect to send any new TI's to a honemeister for proper sharpening plus any corrective measures.
Once corrected and honed well, these are great shaving razors.
Just my experience, FYI.
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