Thread: May have to keep my razors in my bathroom...with steam and moisture...suggestions?

I use a canvas roll as well and as yet never had a problem. Bought it from a tool shop which advertised it as a carvers chisel roll. Be warned though, leather rolls will promote rust. My leather saw case and chisel rolls all seem to make the tools rust faster that without. I think they are just for damage protection really. On the same vein, I always hang a fresh shave towel over my strops to stop the steam getting to them. When finished shaving etc, I put a fresh towel over them ready for the next shave.

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Originally Posted by izlat

Some of the razors I like most were pretty cheap too - but I like so much I'd hate to see them deteriorate

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Ivo

You have misunderstood my point somewhat. I do not see any deterioration on my razors which i keep in the bathroom, because they are the ones i am using, and hence drying and wiping regularly.

I would be more concerned to have a razor that i did not use there, because moisture could build up and become a problem, and since it is not used i might not notice for a while.

On the minus side moisture, steam, humidity all bad for carbon steel. Dude you couldn’t a gone for stainless?

On the plus side whenever you see some movie where dude has to hide from the bad people in the bathroom you can be all “I would totally mess that mofo up my powder room is packed!”

Some good posts on coating up the blade so I won’t rehash that valuable avenue much except to add that moisture isn’t the only enemy.

Make sure you have wiped off all your salty, oily, acidic, fingerprints and all trace of alcohol or solvents off the blade so that they don’t get to continue to eat at the blade under the coating of whatever lube.

Also be careful when using penetrating oils or other lubricants like gun oil, military grade of CLP® may actually dissolve carbon and lightly dull the cutting edge. Haven’t found much on whether the thick waxes and Vaseline gum up the fine edge but what is good for a samurai sword may not be the best for a razors edge eh?

Ok here is a riddle. Since you can’t air the blade cuz the air is moist then why not just coat it and wrap it up in saran wrap =no air at all?

No sock drawer?

Cardboard and cedar boxes absorb moisture well. I keep mine on my dresser.

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Originally Posted by Creel

On the minus side moisture, steam, humidity all bad for carbon steel. Dude you couldn’t a gone for stainless?

On the plus side whenever you see some movie where dude has to hide from the bad people in the bathroom you can be all “I would totally mess that mofo up my powder room is packed!”

Some good posts on coating up the blade so I won’t rehash that valuable avenue much except to add that moisture isn’t the only enemy.

Make sure you have wiped off all your salty, oily, acidic, fingerprints and all trace of alcohol or solvents off the blade so that they don’t get to continue to eat at the blade under the coating of whatever lube.

Also be careful when using penetrating oils or other lubricants like gun oil, military grade of CLP® may actually dissolve carbon and lightly dull the cutting edge. Haven’t found much on whether the thick waxes and Vaseline gum up the fine edge but what is good for a samurai sword may not be the best for a razors edge eh?

Ok here is a riddle. Since you can’t air the blade cuz the air is moist then why not just coat it and wrap it up in saran wrap =no air at all?

No sock drawer?

I have never heard that oil can dissolve carbon from the steel. Do you have a reference for that?

I'm not sure this has been mentioned or not....

But if you have to keep it in the bathroom...Keep it LOW!
And keep it covered. Your condensation will form on the outside of the container if it gets down there.

Most of your steam, etc will be from waist level and up!

C utz