Thread: Have you ever heard about a Str8 razors sharpener??

Here it is what I found today on the bay:

RARE ANTIQUE STRAIGHT RAZOR SHARPENER WORDEN MACHINE - eBay.ch (endet 21.07.08 03:13:00 MESZ)


I haven't understood where to place the razor to be sharpened yet.....

I'd like to see how that works!

Note that he wrote "I believe that this is for a straight razor..." and then calls it a straight razor sharpener.


I can't figure out where the sharpening is supposed to happen. Where are the stones he mentions? Does anyone have a clue what this thing actually is?

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

I'd like to see how that works!

That's exactly what I am wondering..............

A straight razor sharpener.....

....isnt that called a hone?

The Brady Manufacturing Co. , Brooklyn, N.Y. , USA developed typewriters, but nothing for razors.

I've seen straight razor sharpeners before, but that's the first one I've seen looking as that one does. Wouldn't surprise me if(based on the write up) it was for scalpel or microtome blades or some such.
There are all sorts of contraptions for making things better, some work, some don't. This one? I don't know. I think I could guess how it works, though. I wonder which different hones come with it, per the write up? That would be interesting to find out. I once saw a honing machine (I guess for old SE blades) that looked to me to be a contraption built around a wonderfully nice looking Belgian cotuicule.


John P.