Thread: Storing razors -- to oil or not to oil? That is the question.

I will only oil my razors if I am going for a month or so. Other than that they get cleaned and dried after the shave and put back into one of several cutlery boxes I have converted to hold them. These cutlery boxes are not kept in the Bathroom and our climate is not a problem re: humidity with the house being heated in winter and AC'd in summer. It is a YMMV thing.

If I lived where humidity was a big problem I'd probably store them in some sort of dry box.

Bob

Use.....clean with water.....run across the barber hone a few strokes......strop on pasted strop.......linen or nylon strop.......then plain leather strop......then Ballistol to the pivot pin and lightly coat the blade too. Voila, like Hiralu stated, why not!!!! Never a issue as well.

Proper rinsing then drying with tissue, especially between the scales, few laps on the linen strop to clean and dry, then into a treated razor sock and into the razor chest. Never use oil....

I take about five minutes to fill a shot glass full of Q-Tips for cleaning inside the scales. I use a pair of pliers to smash the heads of the Q-Tips so they fit easily inside the scales.

The razor in my current rotation which I use every other day stays untreated. The other rotation razors get treated with Sterol. Long term storage razors get coated with a silicon preparation made for long term knife and gun storage.

My wife has some of that thick baby oil. Unscented. Not quite a gel but not runny. I wipe down blades with that before I store them long-term.

My weekly rotation 'storage' is a wipe down with a rag and then 50 laps on leather. Don't have to worry about humidity out here.

Ballistrol is perfect to protect the edge of my razors. I highly recommend its use. I'm in SoFla and never had a problem.

Originally Posted by BanjoTom

Ballistrol is perfect to protect the edge of my razors. I highly recommend its use. I'm in SoFla and never had a problem.

Great stuff isn't it Tom! I would not be without it now.