Thread: Round Glass Hone?

I'm just wondering if anyone has ever heard of a Lillicrap green glass hone? Here's the eBay link:
Uranium Green Depression Glass Lilicrap's Razor Hone - (eBay.ca item 300247793890 end time 12-Aug-08 07:00:00 EDT)
It's just a little bit weird-looking and I'm wondering if anyone knows what it's all about.

-Justin
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Not heard of that one exactly but I believe they are used for honing DE blades.

Barney

Interesting. Thanks, Barney. The ad also says that it has uranium in it. Any idea what that would be for? WMDs perhaps?

Originally Posted by jayhou8004

Interesting. Thanks, Barney. The ad also says that it has uranium in it. Any idea what that would be for? WMDs perhaps?

When I was a kid (1950's) there were a lot of cool things that we didn't know were bad for us like uranium on watch dials to make them glow in the dark and x-ray machines in shoe stores so we could see the bones in our feet move when we wiggled our toes in a new pair of shoes. In this case, the uranium was just a sales gimmick and novelty.

Yeah, those are useless for straight razors.

Originally Posted by Chimensch

When I was a kid (1950's) there were a lot of cool things that we didn't know were bad for us like uranium on watch dials to make them glow in the dark and x-ray machines in shoe stores so we could see the bones in our feet move when we wiggled our toes in a new pair of shoes. In this case, the uranium was just a sales gimmick and novelty.

Watch dials where radium, not uranium.

Uranium was used for glazes in pottery and as an addative in some steel.

there migth be razors that have uranium in the steel.

Still unlike radium uranium is pretty harmless as a radiological hazard, and is just a toxic heavy metal for most purposes.