Thread: How to prevent rust?

Here is what I do. I have a wooden cigar box and keep my razors in there. No Oil no alcohol nothing. I just dry the blade and keep them in there. I don't have any rust on the blades since I have been doing that. I think the "wooden" cigar boxes are such that they absorb excess moisture or something like that. Life is much simpler since I started doing that.

By no means am I saying this is the only way but I haven't had a rust problem since I started doing it this way....

I BTW don't pay any attention to not getting the pivot wet..

Rinse razor under very hot water, shake off excess water with a snap of the wrist or two... wipe off razor, spray a folded piece of TP with WD-40 wipe blade, tang, and tail, leave razor open in drawer until the next morning then fold and put it in it's spot... Take out next razor in rotation, wipe off WD-40, strop, shave and repeat...
I have not had an adverse reaction to any scales as of yet, although I have not tried this on wooden scales that have only wax for protection, I would be very careful there....

For drying the razor (and preventing rust), I wipe it down with a towel being careful not to get too close the the cutting edge - I then, very lightly "strop" the blade on a towel to remove the water near the edge. Once that is done, I strop the blade on my strop about 15 times just to ensure that the edge is very dry. I then put the razor on my dresser, outside of the bathroom, in an open 90 degree position to allow it to air dry for at least a couple of hours.

As for rinsing the blade, I always rinse the lather off with very hot water and the toe pointed downward, trying not to get the pivot wet.

No rust yet with this routine!

Hope that helps,

Mark

I dry it on the towel I used on my face, then strop it on that towel a couple of times. Then fold it up and put it in my draweri n the bathroom. No rust in several years.