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04-10-2009, 12:27 AM #1Senior Member
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English cast steel
Has anyone hone blade with it? anything different then regualar blades.hardness etc?
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04-10-2009, 12:42 AM #2Senior Member
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Sham, I honed this Rodger's Cast Steel. I set the bevel with the 1200 diamond plate and then did the 4/8 Norton and it shaved very well. It wasn't hard to hone from a very dull edge. I anticipated that it would be difficult but the steel cut fairly easily. I would bet that there is a lot of variation in razors from this period since they tempered everything by eye and the alloys were not very far advanced but I may be wrong about that.
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04-10-2009, 12:46 AM #3Senior Member
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I believe Holli4pirating has one, I don't recall the brand. Hopefully he will see this thread and reply to you. I shaved with it a few weeks ago and it was a very pleasant shave.
I just looked up his signature line. He notes some of his blades there. THe blade was a Sheaf Works Cast Steel. Very nice shaver. I expect he used the Belgian combo he purchased from you but that is only an educated guess.“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” (A. Einstein)
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04-10-2009, 12:55 AM #4Life is short, filled with Stuff
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what kind of one-off, bizzare, never seen before razor are you looking at now Sham? I swear, you find the strangest (and coolest) things.
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04-10-2009, 01:29 AM #5Senior Member
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This is old boker with cast steel.
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04-10-2009, 01:35 AM #6Life is short, filled with Stuff
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Wow, I didn't even know Boker made razors stamped like that. You are the king of esoteric razors, friend.
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04-10-2009, 06:48 AM #7
Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl
Now THAT is a fantastic blade shape. I love the flowing lines on it...amazing. When was that made, anyone know?
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04-10-2009, 12:48 PM #8Senior Member
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Most of the blades prior to 1860 were cast steel,so most of us have honed a lot of them.Best regards Gary
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04-10-2009, 12:54 PM #9Senior Member
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Take a look at the tree on the tang. Originally Posted by JimR
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04-10-2009, 01:39 PM #10Know thyself
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Yea, I've got a Cast Steel blade by Greaves. Somehow, she had a decent bevel set when I got her, even though I got her off ebay. I ran her up my BBW/Coticule just like I would any other blade (BBW with slurry, slowly diluted slurry, coticule with water only) and she turned into a mean shaver.
So in short, I have nothing to add to Joe's post but a confirmation that he is indeed correct. Joe's memory never ceases to amaze me. (Joe: "Oh that blade, yea, with those scales, that's the ______________." Me: "How did you know? You have hunderdes of blades!?!?!?")
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