Thread: Emerging Technologies to Consider for Straight Razors

And I'm still waiting for someone to make me a razor made of tallonite!

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

And I'm still waiting for someone to make me a razor made of tallonite!

ahhh no thanks...
http://www.cutleryscience.com/review....html#talonite

"Summary : Talonite is useful as a blade material when very high corrosion resistance is desired. However the edge retention on cardboard was very low compared to tool steels (D2 and 10V), and the durabiity and sharpening time poor compared to high carbon stainless steels (ATS-34 and VG-10) cutting harder materials. No benefits were seen due to the promoted "lubricity" of talonite nor of its ability to retain aggression after losing a "razor edge", it fared worse than quality steels in that regard. Blunting of course is nonlinear in general so the rate of edge degredation slows down with any blade material with use"


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Here the website of a company in the MIM field with some good tech info.
It appears the parts are sintered for the final process......

I don't think a magnetic field intense enough would be economically available, but I'm no metalurgist either.
I think (that being a key word) a magnetic field may induce grain orientation when the metal is moulten and possibly hold it into solidification, but I really don;t know. I know the properties of hot roll versus cold roll, stamped versus forged versus cast/molded, and the basics for metal composition, but that's about it.

I don;t view MIM as an alternative to forging, but rather an alternative to standard molding techniques. It is far more advantagious than investment casting or poured casting in consistancy and production, just as injection plastic molding was.

Originally Posted by Justme-

I think (that being a key word) a magnetic field may induce grain orientation when the metal is moulten and possibly hold it into solidification.

My, admittedly poor, memory, says metal, in molten state, looses it's magnetizable properties.

Ceramic seems, to me, too brittle (and dirricult to maintain)

I too think H1 would be an interesting experiment. It does, as indicated, work harden so the stock removal should create a nicely hardened razor. Maybe...

I would love to see some new vendors enter the market (Spyderco, Kershaw, Busse?) and try applying the knowledge they have from decades of making high quality knives to the straight razor. But most of them, it seems, already have full plates with knife production.

Ken