Thread: How do you store your razor after use?

--Just built this. Real simple.

My vanity has a cupboard that rest on the counter and I keep my razors on the top shelf with a silica pack between them. It came in a bottle of OTC pain reliever. After finishing with the shave, I put a drop of peppermint oil on each side of the blade and use my finger to coat all metal surfaces including the tang and monkey's tail and spine. I also use the same finger to add a light coating to the metal scale end covers.

I have applied a drop of peppermint oil on my cartridge razor for years. Believe it or not, a drop each day spread over the blades helps them stay sharp twice as long. Peppermint oil prevents oxidation and has a mild antiseptic property. It also smells nice. Warning, peppermint oil is expensive, but last a long time using so little.

Apply WD-40 3-in-1 multi purpose oil or camellia oil

Place them back in their respective coffin box and others I place in brush stand.

Rinse in hot water. Dry. Leave until I've finished all the after-shave business. Strop on linen. Leave overnight on silica gel packets. Store in box with silica gel packets. So far, so good. Rotation's getting bigger though, maybe have to think harder and include oil.

I sometimes strop lightly after wiping the blade dry, apply a thin coat of oil, and store them in a canvas roll that was made by vgod, one of the members here on SRP. I keep the roll in a different room to avoid any possibility of contact with moisture and high humidity.

I've been wiping it down with japanese sword wiping paper (although I'm running out!) and them wiping it down with some felt soaked in choji (camellia oil or mineral with a bit of clove) and putting it on my mantle. I figure its better for it than storing it in the bathroom and I do my stropping by attaching to my fireplace damper rod.

I might get some sort of display stand in the future... My only razor is ebony, and I figure a pair of ebony/bone or vintage ivory would be nice together.

I'll get shot for this, but the ones not in rotation are simple in vintage cardboard razor sleeves (coffins?) The ones in rotation are in a mug on my dresser, the ones needing work are just lying around my room (dresser, desk, speaker cab) and the one that has just been used is lying open on the dress next to the mug. After shave, I'm usually wearing a towel, so I just wipe off on the towel, strop a few times on my arm, schlep my gear back to my room, strop a few times on linen (or if I put jeans on, on my thigh, really just strop on anything convex/flat and cotton) and leave it open next to the rotation mug.

I always keep my razors up high. I have small kids running around all the time. I also always strop a few laps after my shave. The one main thing i can tell you is DRY your razor. Water is BAD.

Clean it thoroughly, then let it air out for another 24 hours, then pack it in its case and store it high out of reach for children.

I use a towel to get all the soap scum off of it. During this process, I am very careful about the edge as I don't want to harm it. Then polish it up a bit with TP. Then sharpen it up again with my touch test for sharpness. I do this very lightly.


All of my straights work great and are finely tuned!

Pabster

After the shave, I rinse the blade under hot water and towel dry; I then use a q-tip and mineral oil and paint the blade with it. I do this after every shave. It might be over-kill but I want to protect the SR since I live in Florida and humindity is high here.