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A video of Ern's "Hexe" machine to grind both sides of a razor (www.youtube.com)
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I was chatting with someone about Ern razors and mentioned seeing that he'd invented a better way to do hollow grinds. Found the link I remembered (Carl Friedrich Ern & family introduced the "Hexe" machine in 1893) but learned something new when I thought to look for one on Youtube: a current artisan (Ertan Süer) has acquired such a machine and is using it for some of his current production.

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[–] gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 1 points 1 year ago

Hopefully we left docs somewhere

Yep. They're out there. I have no idea how we would find them without modern indexing and search technology, though. Reminds me to visit the Library of Congress again (largest public library in the US).