Doctor blade

A doctor blade made of steel, other alloy or metal, with a strip shaped body with flat, parallel sides and at least one longitudinal edge portion with reduced thickness including a first wearing section which has the shape of a lamella, wherein the edge portion with reduced thickness includes a second wearing section in a region between said first wearing section and said blade body at a distance from the first wearing section, that the second wearing section is thicker than the first one, that between the first and the second wearing section there is a short transition section which has a width that is not more than 5% of the total width of said edge portion with reduced thickness in a direction square to the longitudinal direction of the doctor blade—in this context referred to as thinned edge width (FB)—the thickness of the transition section rising steeply from the thickness of the lamella shaped first wearing section adjacent to the transition section to the thickness of the second wearing section adjacent to the transition section, in that the thickness of the lamella shaped wearing section increases from a thickness adjacent to the tip of the lamella to a second, larger thickness at the inner end of the lamella shaped wearing section, and in that the thickness of the second wearing section increases from a third thickness, which is larger than said second thickness, to a fourth thickness which is the thickness of the blade body.