Thread: Diamond Like Coating - why can't it be used on straight razors?

Razor blades are 0.45-0.55 micron wide at the edge. A 0.5 micron coating would increase that to 1.5 microns wide at the edge, which is pulling-hair-out-by-the-roots dull.

and then when sharpened it would be honed right off or messup out hones. Nice idea though... if you talk to one of the custom guys like Joe Chandler and Robert Williams they might be willing to give it a try and see for sure though. Sure would cut down on rust.

I emailed the guys at a DLC coating place in texas, they informed me that the size of the carbon modules is 5-10 nanometers so it'd be un-noticible. I am currently working out costing.. it is interesting at the very least.

I'm not sure how I'd actually see any benifit from this. Only the edge basicly touches my face, so the only drag is the edge running into hair. I dry my razor on a towel so rust has never been an issue even with storing them in my bathroom drawer. Stropping takes less than thirty seconds and I doubt this would prevent the razor from needing re-honing on a semi-anual/anual schedule. I just don't understand the point.

Originally Posted by Wildtim

I'm not sure how I'd actually see any benifit from this. Only the edge basicly touches my face, so the only drag is the edge running into hair. I dry my razor on a towel so rust has never been an issue even with storing them in my bathroom drawer. Stropping takes less than thirty seconds and I doubt this would prevent the razor from needing re-honing on a semi-anual/anual schedule. I just don't understand the point.

It would prevent the razor needing honing..

And then what happens when you get a chip or some other imperfection in the edge?

Ever feel like your wasting your breath . . .

Originally Posted by keljian

It would prevent the razor needing honing..

So then I'd have to give up my stones and honing?

Seriously, why would I want to eliminate such an enjoyable and challenging practice that is integral to this art?

To me that would be like telling a car buff that adding a technologically advanced component to his collector car/s would mean that he'd never have to/be able to tinker with those pesky engines any longer and could just sit behind the wheel and drive.

Or telling a gardener that some new GMO seeds could mean he'd never have to actually "garden" again.

I could think of many many analogous examples....................

Chris L

I have not used a cartridge razor in probably 10 years so I'm not up on all the "advancements" I only see the entire aisle of them hanging there in the stores. Do similar coatings on cartridge edges mean that each cartridge lasts a year (somewhat of a rhetorical question but somewhat genuine as well) before it can be thrown in the garbage?

Originally Posted by keljian

It would prevent the razor needing honing..

Here you go then.




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Originally Posted by Wildtim

Here you go then.




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What a riot! Is that a real ad or a hilarious comedic sketch?

Chris L