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  1. 04-11-2006, 04:43 PM #1
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    I’ve often wondered what it would take to jumpstart straight razor use again. All I can come up with is some sort of major celebrity endorsement. Such as:

    “Hi, I’m Oscar Winner George Clooney ™ and I only use a straight razor. That’s why I get laid so much…”

    If such a celebrity made such a statement there would be an instant surge in straight razor sales. Followed by trips to the emergency room.

    Know why there are no American made straights today? No American company could make one large enough for all the warning labels.

    We’ll have to be content to keep this arcanum amongst ourselves.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Library Guy

    Know why there are no American made straights today? No American company could make one large enough for all the warning labels.

    Hahahaha I was just thinking that!!! I figured they'd get sued all over the place for selling straights and telling people to use them on their faces.
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  3. 04-12-2006, 10:39 AM #3
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    You'd need to ship an MSDS with every blade lol.
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    Truer words were never spoken. In addition the number of law suits would quintuple.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Library Guy
    Know why there are no American made straights today? No American company could make one large enough for all the warning labels.
    Regards &c
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    Ha! Sad to say, but so true.
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  6. 04-12-2006, 06:07 PM #6
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    I would send my rc 70 razor off to be sharpened

    We could take bets on how long it would take someone to give up trying to sharpen it
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    I heard of a new stainless steel for kitchen knives that can be hardened to rc 70
    On a C scale... I don't think so. Do you have any idea how hard 70 is?

    I use a 70 C on a template for making guards because files won't touch it. Slides past like it was glass.... They would also shatter if you dropped it.
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    I think I saw it in a knife forum when I was researching japanese kitchen knives. Probably would be made with japanese blade construction so it wouldn't be so brittle. Would be cool too see how long it could keep an edge.

    I have no idea what 70 is like but japanese chisels are hardened to 64-65 and stand up too hard wood without chipping is 70 such a stretch with all the technology we have these days?

    I would like to state I know absolutely nothing about differing hardnesses differen't steels or really how hardening effects steel
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    What about Shapton stones? Would they give the 70C an edge?
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