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02-17-2007, 09:46 PM #1Kiss me, I'm simian!
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I don't get it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Straight...QQcmdZViewItem
Someone 'splain how this is supposed to work please?
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02-17-2007, 10:00 PM #2
I would guess its for DE blades. You run the blade where the two marbles come together and the glass against the blade sharpens them. Its like the glass DE sharpeners you see on Eboy-the Lillicraps I believe they are called.
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02-17-2007, 10:05 PM #3Kiss me, I'm simian!
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I guess the concept escapes me. Usually when glass meets steel, steel wins.
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02-17-2007, 10:43 PM #4Electric Razor Aficionado
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It's a stropper for DE blades. Never used one of these myself, so I don't know how well they work, but it's probably got nothing to do with glass being softer than steel. Leather strops work just fine after all...
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02-18-2007, 04:29 PM #5Senior Member
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not really.... Old DE blades, the carbon ones were usually sharpened on the inside surface of drinking glass, to prolong their life... You can also find glass sharpeners for DE blades on e-bay, with concave surface, where you run the blade back and forth to sharpen it...
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I guess the concept escapes me. Usually when glass meets steel, steel wins.
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03-07-2007, 09:24 PM #6Born again shaver
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the principle is quite simple, the marbles don't sharpen the blade they strop it by pushing the edge back into a straight line - much the same way as a smooth cooks 'steel' re-aligns a knife edge
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