Thread: New! From Pakistan!

Originally Posted by tat2Ralfy

Sweeeet!
Can you post some pics of the rash you get if you try to shave after stropping?
Hahaha

The milestone test here is whether the razor will remain sharp after a couple of shaves, or even if it keeps sharp after the first pass of the first shave

Let's see what Kees has to say

Originally Posted by Olav Vittfarne

Just watched the clip and the narrator is shouting in Finnish or Estonian.
I don't speak them but in Sweden we hear enough Finnish to recognize it.

'Tis finnish. Here's an approximate translation since it was quite hard to hear what they were saying and since not everything translates wordperfectly into english. Obviously, the man wasn't professional commentator or even making try to comment documentary stile. My guess is that this is just a home video.

At furnace:"Now this is real handiwork/manual labor"
At furnace: "They are beginning the forging of the Sampo, and hopefully it is a contraption, which brings endlessly ...<coughing>". In finnish mythology, The Kalevala, the Sampo was a magical mill that turns infinite wealth.
When the man runs with the steel from the furnace: "There's quite a hurry here"
At the hammer: "From here, the whole things starts"
Steel is returned to the furnace: "That man throws the hot piece back to the furnace and throws some more coal on it." "Let it sit for a while. I don't really understand why there's this big/horrible diesel-engine running, but I guess it makes current so they can straighten something" (might have misheard the straightening bit)
Persons: "The host and buddies watch how they make things here"
"Looks great!"
"Yeah!"

The diesel engine is perhaps powering Thor's hammer and finger mashing machine? I don't think you simply plug that beast into a wall outlet....


Thanks for the translation!

Does NOT negotiate with Terrorists

Originally Posted by JohnnyCakeDC

Does NOT negotiate with Terrorists

How do you mean ?

Originally Posted by JohnnyCakeDC

Does NOT negotiate with Terrorists

I'm confused by this post.

Are the scales decent enough to put a real blade in? I've seen that thing on ebay many times, and that was the only use I could think of for it.

I was on a trip all this past week but tried to bring up SRP on the iPhone a few times to see how this went. Kees I'll say it again, thanks for jumping into this fray for all of our benefits without using a net so to speak. I can't wait to see how that monster hones up - or if you can actually hone it to a shave ready state. If it works out and (big if) you can get it sharp without a full day's work, and if it holds the edge for a few shaves I'll jump in as well for a few of them! Let us know brother!

The good: razor arrived within a week despite ramadan.

The bad: it does not take an edge that you can shave with. I managed to get it to shave some hairs off my arm but not a single whisker.

The ugly: how the razor looks now. I honed it without taping the spine. It is almost a wedge, I needed to remove quite some metal to have a bevel along the entire cutting edge. Edge is serrated when seen under the mike.

The good?: I wrote Mr Rana and he apologized saying he appreciated the review I gave him of how I had honed it, said he had not expected anyone to use it for shaving and offered to replace it with a better made razor of the next batch.
I have had some fun trying to prove the impossible, still having swarf to prove it under may nails!

Originally Posted by Kees

The good?: I wrote Mr Rana and he apologized saying he appreciated the review I gave him of how I had honed it, said he had not expected anyone to use it for shaving and offered to replace it with a better made razor of the next batch.
I have had some fun trying to prove the impossible, still having swarf to prove it under may nails!

Why would he expect anyone to use a razor for shaving?

What will the next batch be made of? Plastic?