Thread: Mystery product

This is interesting...

I am not sure how much I'd use it to purchase now, though

Cheers
Ivo

I ordered one and I have Bill Ellis' contraption too - Bill's jig is great, and while it may only take $10 buck s to make it you also have to have the tools, which I do not - but that jig is specifically only for restoring straight razors (pretty narrow) - and while is is unsurpassed (so far) at doing that - it cost something like $25.00 bucks, and I had to buy a vise to hold it (just happens to be a suction mounted hobby vise) so the set up is very similar to HA's - HOWEVER,

I also use the hell out of RAM mounts (GPS in car, mountain bike, laptop mount, etc.) and those mounts aren't cheap and are decently constructed - SO, as I see it, I am getting the mount (which I can use to suction different devices all over the place with the swivel ball joint) AND the cool stainless magnetic thingy - which I frankly would use to restore razors, YES, but I plan on using it to hold all fo the other knives I need to hone - kitchen knives first baby...I am going to sharpen the hell out of all of the flat wide blades I have - this thing looks like it will serve that purpose pretty well.

I just wish the REST of the site were up, with the pastes and the strops and the other stuff)!! They might get a pretty hefty order out of me!! (Hint, um, HINT)

No affiliation by the by...

K

For some people it may be just what they need!
It is worth a try for sure.

I still don't get how it works....could someone explain? Maybe a video? pictures? description on how to use? I guess I'm just a visual kind of guy.

Unconventional!

http://www.handamerican.com/2020straight.html

The steel when is placed in a magnetic field is magnetised permanently!
I dont know if i want my razors to act as magnets.

Yiannis

Some time ago blades were sold magnetised (some suggest as part of a marketing gimmick). I have a vintage blade which is magnetised and it certainly doesn't seem to make any difference to the shaving experience.

It might do if James were using one and nicked himself though!

Originally Posted by majurey

Some time ago blades were sold magnetised (some suggest as part of a marketing gimmick). I have a vintage blade which is magnetised and it certainly doesn't seem to make any difference to the shaving experience.

It might do if James were using one and nicked himself though!

This is interesting Mark
And when you hone it, the metal that is removed from the razor remains on it or on the stone as with the nonmagnetized razors?

Yannis

I have used Bill Ellis' razor jig, and it has four pretty strong little magnets to hold the blade - so much so that the blade will snap to the jig (scared the crap out of my wife when I gave it to her to show her how it worked - she almost dropped the whole thing, fortunately it was a solo garbage blade I keep around for testing) -

Now, I have done at least four restorations on that bear, a Henckels with barber notch took a looong time due to some pretty serious rust (and so I left that blade on the jig for weeks!), and then I have either honed the razors myself or sent them off to be honed. I have never, repeat, never seen (or heard of) any of the particulate sticking to the blade because of being magnetized. Perhaps it is because I used water hones that float the particulate to the surface and away from the blade? I don't know, but I personally have never seen any of these blades attract steel dust or snap to the faucet, or have any kind of dust problems on a strop or be attracted to the hardware on a strop - just hasn't happened.

Even when I used a dremel on the blades while in the jig I used the sandpaper drums with water, I never resto dry (unless it is MAAS and even that I rarely let dry). YMMV.

K

Originally Posted by Yannis

This is interesting Mark
And when you hone it, the metal that is removed from the razor remains on it or on the stone as with the nonmagnetized razors?

Yannis

Good question, Yannis! I hadn't even considered it. I have not noticed residual metal sticking to the blade from honing, or even the darker slurry from a coticule 'following' the blade when I hone. The only explanation I can think of is that the metal particles from honing are so tiny as to remain in the slurry/hone, or escape my notice via the naked eye.

Either way, it hasn't affected the process of honing (the blade in question is one of the easier ones to hone in my rotation).