Thread: Cell rot, can someone advise please

Actually Ron I thought you did a darn good job with a difficult subject

My experience has been maybe one case of cell rot in 150 razor purchases. Although, that should have no statistical impact on the current ratio of those bay purchases having said rot. Food for thought if shopping/rolling the dice on the bay.

Nice discussion of the subject on Knife World here -- Celluloid.

My prejudice against the multi-colored celluloid scales is probably related to some ancient and hateful shortcoming in my cranial wiring. I'll schedule myself for re-education.

Another thing to remember is we usually see razors with textbook corrosion patterns and we have that fixed in our minds as to what cell rot looks like.

That can be dangerous because often times it will start in just one small area and if not recognized it spreads with lightening speed.

I had a razor that I saw a rust spot in one place maybe 5mm diameter and it was just a light spot that I cleaned and polished out easily and put back away. About three months later I took it out and it had been put away with some heavy duty silicon based preservative. Then there were two spots and I had serious pitting into the blade. It was cell rot. I had similar with a prize Puma Gold Razor. Just one small spot which rapidly became 3 spots and deep pitting.