Originally Posted by
mparker762
I was playing with my western-styled tamahagane razor the other day and it's very hard indeed. Not sure how hard exactly, but it seems to be harder than my 65HRC Robt Williams razor. A few years ago I took my Chronik to a local lab for Rockwell testing but I'm not terribly interested in getting my tamahagane razor onto a tester, since the rib on mine is too small to test on, it's very thin and vestigial like the TI Silverwing, so they'd have to test it on the blade itself and that's just asking for trouble. Maybe if I had two of them...