Thread: stainless steel blade

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

I have heard that some stainless blades can be harsher to shave with, but some are very smooth (Friodurs, Hess). It may be true that stainless blades give less feedback, but it's hard for me to say since my only stainless is a 7/8 Friodur. I can say that she's an amazing shaver; sharp as could be and very smooth on my face.

+1 on the stainless Friodur! I have an 8/8. It's my only stainless. Not only that, it is probably my best shaver (I have over 90), and I found it very easy to hone.

Originally Posted by cannonfodder

That Friodur is the only blade I have ever been able to fillet a hair in half on which is darn impressive.

I have read things like this before! Help me with this. How on earth do you hit the end of the hair? That seems difficult to me. My hair is very fine. I don't think I could do this, even if I had the sharpest blade on earth. I don't know!

Steve

I filleted it, not on end split. Catch the hair on the side and shave it in half. I actually have it on video, somewhere on Google.

Found it, got 60 some odd videos out there, most of them for espresso machine reviews. And no, that hair was from a hair brush. It is around 2 min into the shot.

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you can fillet hair with a knife, and shold definitely be able to do it with a razor. Remember hair has a grain structure to, a series of overlapping shingles, if you will. Like this:

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

<--- Arrow A Arrow B --->

If you move your knife in the direction of arrow B, it may skip over the shingles. If you go in the direction of Arrow A, the knife catches on the "shingle" and splits the hair.

Scanning electron micrograph of human hair:




Video of hair whittling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZZa1Ng5bzY