Thread: Olive oil and baking soda?

Bruce, I'm glad to see that I may have converted you to the wonderful world of razor care neurosis.

The beautiful thing about it is that it's the things that you just can't see that can drive you nutz, like the boogey monster under the bed when you were a kid it can keep you up late at night worrying "I dried my razor off good before putting it away, didn't I? Didn't I?."

"Well, maybe I better just go and check it out to be sure....OK, it looks fine, but maybe I better give it a few strops and re-oil it, yeah...that's the ticket, re-oil it! I'm sure it's just fine to be up stropping my razor at 3a.m....I'm OK, you're OK, right?..."

"A microscope, yeaaaah, I better get a microscope....I don't know what 2000 diameters is/are, but I gotta see it!"

Forget the olive oil (and baking soada...) I just ordered up some camella oil.

Hi gents,

Is it right that you can get some stains caused whilst polishing on a stone ?
My new Wapi has some black marks appear on both sides near the edge,like stains !
I am 100% positive the blade and scales were bone dry when I put them away,I also store them in a warm dry airing cupboard.
The same day I carried out the same procedure on my Double Arrow and that has no marks at all !

Regards

Stains from polishing stones? Interesting. Now this is doubtful, but it is remotely possible that your razor is allergic to the hone. Stranger things have happened.

Now this leads into what I really wanted to speculate on and that is the possibility that we may never need to hone a razor more than once. Yes, and you read it here first. These photomicrographs from 1931 indicate that rusting occurs on every edge, every time it is put to rest. There is no such thing as an un-oiled edge not corroding. But these same photomicrographs taken at 2000 diameters also indicate that stropping removes the roughness of the corrosion and restores a shaving edge.

Could it be, then, that we could use controlled chemically induced edge development to keep an edge in shaving condition. It may just be that we have worried too much about the pristine razor and not allowed for the possibliity that controlled entropy will help us in the shaving den.

A little rust 'em, a little strop 'em, a little shave 'em. or

This may be worth a bit more investigation. After all, my razors look really nice and shiny, but I've learned that they are being eaten away by photomicrographically discovered RUST. I never knew this and stropped and shaved in total ignorance of this phenomenon. And I got good, smooth shaves. I may just have moved my hypothesis up to the rank of theory. Rust 'em, strop 'em, shave 'em: it rolls trippingly off the tongue, don't you think?

good theorizing, good shaving

Could it be, then, that we could use controlled chemically induced edge development to keep an edge in shaving condition.

Isn't this called Chrome Ox?


And what I took from that article is that if you cover your edge in vaseline as soon as you are done with it, your edge may last indefinitely (still need to strop 'em, though..)

And I still say that more research needs to be done on ceramic razor blades. They'd never rust.

They said that they tried it, but they were too sharp to use.

I think that would be an easy fix, just dull them back a touch, right?

I figure that the guys at Kyocera ceramic works found the penultimate razor blade, but the Gillette/Schick syndicate caught wind of it and sent some of of Da Boyz over to break a few kneecaps and make them an offer they couldn't refuse...

sera,

Noop, noop, you've got the wrong chemistry going there. I'm talking Fe2O3 not Cr2O3: a robust, manly, red rust not this bilious, sickly, chromely stuff. "A better living through corrosion"

--tread quietly, master theoretician at work here--

Hey now, this may have legs: Seramix. I can see it now splashed all over tall electronic billboards, "Seramix, the manly man's razor - sharp now and always." Or for another crowd, "Seramix, the real razor - buy it now, Butch."

Originally Posted by Bruce

Hey now, this may have legs: Seramix. I can see it now splashed all over tall electronic billboards, "Seramix, the manly man's razor - sharp now and always." Or for another crowd, "Seramix, the real razor - buy it now, Butch."

I'll copyright the name, and you can split half of the profits of the multinational corporation we shall found.

For further corrosion experiments, way beyond olive oil and baking soda, check out this.

Long story short:

Got a bottle of camella oil from Woodcraft yesterday.


No nasty smell like the balistol, coats and sticks well to the razor. And it has pics of katanas on the front, who doesn't like katanas?