Thread: You Thought You Had it Bad?

I had a buddy in high school whose comback always included "your mom's back hair".

"Hey John, don't serve yet, I have to pluck your mom's back hair and restring my racket".

I'm tempted to go out and leave a review that just says "makes my razor really sharp... makes it easy to shave your mom's back hair".

“I wonder how many of the neighbors dogs he has in his freezer for catching them doing what dogs do :<0)”

I didn’t know, you were supposed to freeze them…

Originally Posted by Razorfaust

5 horse power and smooth . Havent worked out the stropping ? Might I suggest running out over a Crox pasted cow

thats what iI thought Astroturf was crox pasted lab grass just for this sort of thing

About 30 years ago, I had a very elderly neighbor who would adjust his reel mower's cutting bar to the blades then apply a valve lapping compound to the bar and turn the reel backwards to the way it normally would cut to sharpen it by hand. Then he'd wash the compound off and readjust the bar. It was a gas powered reel mower and his lawn always looked very nice.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

About 30 years ago, I had a very elderly neighbor who would adjust his reel mower's cutting bar to the blades then apply a valve lapping compound to the bar and turn the reel backwards to the way it normally would cut to sharpen it by hand. Then he'd wash the compound off and readjust the bar. It was a gas powered reel mower and his lawn always looked very nice.

Wow I didn't know there was a gas option

Originally Posted by whoever

Wow I didn't know there was a gas option

Sure! They are still being manufactured:
Sears.com

If you've never seen one, they make commercial units with muliple reels hooked up in overlapping gangs/they are used in really large areas/parks/gold courses etc

Quite a bit different from my neighbors or my grannies but still the same concept.

Granny would let me mow her lawn and it was self propelled and I could do pretty good for a 7 or 8 year old but it was 'interesting' to say the least.

Did he try an India oilstone or maybe something under 30k grit rating?

Has anyone considered the poor state that shapton 30k must be in after honing a lawnmower blade? For the price of the hone he could of easily bought a new mower every time he needed to sharpen it.

Originally Posted by Razorfaust

Has anyone considered the poor state that shapton 30k must be in after honing a lawnmower blade? For the price of the hone he could of easily bought a new mower every time he needed to sharpen it.

Yes but depends on model

I notice that nobody has suggested he use a whipper snipper and a pencil sharpener, that would create a fine cutting edge at the end of the gut!