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04-25-2010, 01:55 PM #11
I don't think this counts as "other than a razor," but it would certainly be included under Letterman's "Stupid Human Tricks" category.
More than 20 years ago, curious to see what a "straight razor" might feel like against my skin, I snipped the guard off of a single blade disposable razor. As I mentioned in my introductory post, I will leave the results of my stupidity to your imagination. *sigh*
Namaste,
Morty -_-
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04-26-2010, 01:49 AM #12
Have you seen this video, the man shaves with obsidian rock:
YouTube - shaving with stone razors
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ehammers (04-27-2010)
04-27-2010, 01:56 PM
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That's awesome! I've been told, though haven't verified it personally, that an obsidian blade can be made with an edge as fine as a single molecule. I don't know if that's completely true, but I can say that they are ridiculous sharp. I haven't tried to shave my face with one, but I have shaved a little bit of arm hair off to test an obsidian edge, and it produced less resistance than my (at the time) Mach 3.
04-27-2010, 02:09 PM
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Surgeons used to use obsidian as scalpel blades as well, its silly sharp!
If you ever go up a volcano, they wont let you go up in normal shoes if there is any obsidian out there as it will go right through the shoe and open your foot up in a flash. They'll typically give you sturdy boots with metal plating in the bottom and even then, you simply wont believe how quickly the soles get sliced up.
04-27-2010, 02:12 PM
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Great video. Interestingly, it appears that the stone doesn't lift the lather off the face. I wonder why that is.
04-27-2010, 03:09 PM
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Yes. Obsidian can be sharpened down to a molecule. It's commonly used in scalpels as said already. It's a pretty wicket material
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the earliest recorded usage of razors was stones and sharpened sea shells... Might be worth an experiment..
I, personally, was a KnifeKnut before razors attacked me and my wallet... And I hated my Gillette Fusion... I already had a Spyderco Triangle Sharpmaker which put ridiculously smooth edges on a knife when you used all the rods (rough, fine and ultrafine) and all their angles (point of the triangle, then the face of the side of the triangle)... It actually shaved me much better than the Gillette... So, I used that until my father remarked how it reminded him of his straight razor. I googled Straight Razor, found this place, and the rest is history.
Fun Fact. If you ever get a knife sharp enough to shave with, do that in a public restroom... The first guy in my dorm who saw that ran to the RA screaming... I think he thought I was trying to kill myself
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Jeremy
05-03-2010, 02:43 AM
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05-03-2010, 04:11 AM
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05-04-2010, 08:05 PM
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I shaved the sides of my face & the neck area with a broadhead while waiting for my first straight in the mail.
It wasn't very comfortable but it did a decent job considering.