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    OK so after digging through more razors here are the closest things to full hollows that I have.

    17/16 Tally Ho - full hollow
    7/8 Holley MFG Co stubby - 1/2 hollow
    3/4 W&B Celebrated Anglo-Saxon Concave Razor - faux frameback
    5/8 E.G Gustafsson Eskilstuna faux frameback
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    I just took a look at your pictures under the microscope and it looks like the Tally Ho is covered in extremely rare and highly contagious bacterial microbes. Better send it to me so that I can dispose of it properly.

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    All I have to add is 'damn you cheetah!'

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    In the interest of cajoling you into using a smaller blade (!) I'd say go fro the Eskilstuna. At 5/8 and a hollow-ish kind of grind it will give the sharpest contrast to the other beasts you have assembled.

    BTW I love the fact that a call out for lighter blades results in the appearance of a 17/16 Tally-Ho!

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    If you don't already have a shoulderless blade in your lineup, I vote for the Holley half hollow. This is because they're very different to strop; you might find (as I did) that that's significant enough to matter. Much easier without those stabilizers hanging up on the strop edge.

    Great idea, by the way. I envy your breadth of choices.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cangooner View Post
    In the interest of cajoling you into using a smaller blade (!) I'd say go fro the Eskilstuna. At 5/8 and a hollow-ish kind of grind it will give the sharpest contrast to the other beasts you have assembled.

    BTW I love the fact that a call out for lighter blades results in the appearance of a 17/16 Tally-Ho!
    LOL I was just trying to see what I had based on the requests of the people who replied to the post. So I was holding up my razors a looking at the chart we have that shows you the different profiles of the blades. I didn't even think that I had a full hollow or half hollow. It became a quest just to see what i had.

    Good times
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    Quote Originally Posted by roughkype View Post
    If you don't already have a shoulderless blade in your lineup, I vote for the Holley half hollow. This is because they're very different to strop; you might find (as I did) that that's significant enough to matter. Much easier without those stabilizers hanging up on the strop edge.

    Great idea, by the way. I envy your breadth of choices.
    Thanks by the way.

    I'm not sure if I have a shoulderless or not. I do have 4 or 5 really early stubtail blades so I will check there first.

    Cheetah

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