Thread: Modern Celluloid Scales

Just my experience. If the razor in question is with free flowing air through and around it, some degradation is eliminated. In a closed shadow box or razor box it can go fast.
A friend who collects, maintains, and displays a lot of razors found this change in a DD after two months since the last checkup.

The razor was in a sealed shadow box with a few other razors. A mate in another box was the same but worse!
Some of the scales were fine but they used a cheap for of celluloid for the wedges. DD, HESS, And some of the Beau Brummel and other of the same manufacture were notorious for that.
Some old celluloid was stored for years before use to prevent bad out-gassing. Fine fountain pens are examples of ten year open storage before finish machining of barrels and caps.
The new Acrylic examples of Tortis and such are going to last a long time.
YMMV
~Richard