Thread: Sterilization and Self honing vs Honemeister

You have to refinish the surface of the steel and work your way back to a polished surface. Boiling bleach etches the steal.

This is what it looks like after a long bleaching.

Is there a way to refinish without loosing the Solingen mark with the curvature all over the blade?

That's a pity about the stains, I hope you can remedy it. But about the honing. Some would say send it away to get honed, but I would beg to differ, mainly because I like to be self sufficient. I agree with concentrating on stropping first, but only for a couple of months. I also agree partly about the finishing hone, I started with a Norton 4/8 AND a Shapton 16k and while other hones might be nice, I fail to see why I would need anything else. In fact, the JaNorton thread taught me I actually really only need the Norton. I got a great edge using just that. However (again) the Shapton is quick and easy. No need to soak, 10 laps every month or two weeks I find is all I need. It seems to me that given a good edge to start with one could keep one's razor in good shape ad infinitum with just a Shapton 16k. You will need another professionally honed razor, as a 'reference' razor. When you use/strop/hone one, as the possible edge degradation will be very slow and gradual, unless you have another razor to compare it too you may end up with a poor edge that you THINK is OK.

Get a Norton 4/8 and maybe a Shapton 16k (if you can afford both), honing it not all that hard, if I can do it any one can...

Carl

I still don't know why guys freak out about sterilizing and continue to ruin good blades with peroxide or bleach.

Barbicide.

B A R B I C I D E.

It has to be on SRP a thousand times, and a quick search could have saved this very nice razor...

Sorry for your loss.

I made the same mistake on my Wolfertz but with a tiny bit of peroxide instead of bleach. Luckily the blade was already so dingy and old that it didn't have too much of an effect. I kind of like that look, personally. Not that I'd do it again, but I don't feel terribly upset about it.

Originally Posted by BKratchmer

I still don't know why guys freak out about sterilizing and continue to ruin good blades with peroxide or bleach.

Barbicide.

B A R B I C I D E.

It has to be on SRP a thousand times, and a quick search could have saved this very nice razor...

Sorry for your loss.

AMEN.

Quit boiling, bleaching, soaking, etc and use the resources here to learn what to do. If you are so obsessed with germs that you ruin your blade and or scales by trying to kill something that in all likelyhood isn't there, then you have the result of what you caused.

Will N.

I just wanted to say this post tickled me a bit. It reminded me of myself in a way. We get on SRP, we ask our question, then we go ahead and do whatever it is we were going to do to begin with. Then we come back to SRP when it didn't go the way we hoped it would. lol. I briefly read the posts, and saw a couple people told you to stay away from bleach. Ah well, such is life I guess. Just know you're not alone. In seven months on here, I can tell you, 98 percent of the advice you get from here is going to be 100 percent correct. The other 2 percent is from people like me who think we know something. I know it's a bit late, but I've never done more than soap, water, and an alchohol swipe and I've not caught anything. It'd be safe to bet I've forgotten all about sterilization a couple times, and I'm still just as healthy as the day I put the Mach3 in the cabinet. In fact, my skin is in better condition than it ever was. Remember that part about the 2 percent though, when considering my post contents.

Justin

Originally Posted by regularjoe

I just wanted to say this post tickled me a bit. It reminded me of myself in a way. We get on SRP, we ask our question, then we go ahead and do whatever it is we were going to do to begin with. Then we come back to SRP when it didn't go the way we hoped it would. lol. I briefly read the posts, and saw a couple people told you to stay away from bleach. Ah well, such is life I guess. Just know you're not alone. In seven months on here, I can tell you, 98 percent of the advice you get from here is going to be 100 percent correct. The other 2 percent is from people like me who think we know something. I know it's a bit late, but I've never done more than soap, water, and an alchohol swipe and I've not caught anything. It'd be safe to bet I've forgotten all about sterilization a couple times, and I'm still just as healthy as the day I put the Mach3 in the cabinet. In fact, my skin is in better condition than it ever was. Remember that part about the 2 percent though, when considering my post contents.

Justin

i think this advice applies to cleaning too. I used peroxide (with water and soap) not to sterilize, but to get off the gunk that had built up over time. So in general, be careful about what substances you expose your razors too. If it's not water, soap or metal polish, don't do it for any reason.

I never sterilized a used razor and am still alive and kicking.

I use Barbicide to sterilize the razors. This product is used throughout the world today, to sterilize hygiene items with great success.
I worry more about the germs floating around in the air today, than what might be lying dormant on a 100 year old razor.
I am a big fan of bleach & peroxide for killing germs, but not on steal.