Thread: Best Alloy

I have a couple of new razors one in S30V by Robert Williams (our own Papa Bull who posted earlier) and one in ATS 34 by Bill Ellis. Both are great shavers once sharp and hold an edge very well. They take some doing to get them there.

Here is a post on knife steel which I suppose is applicable to straight razors.

so far as i can tell the best "new " steel tec for knives and razors is the PM/ CPM steels as thy are more "mixed" better and have a nice even +small grain to them before heat treat. if the maker does every thing right then that grain stays small and you can get a nice hard extra small grained edge

jsut what your looking for

right now the way PM/CPM is done there has to be some extra alloy in the steel to make it run in the spray nosels right and that (most of the time ) gets you a longer ware steel at a slight trade in how fine it is

also remember that every batch of steel (even in the same alloy ) heat treats a hair different . part of the why the old razors are good has to be from that fact that they likly got tons of steel that was all the same batch and then tuned the heat treat to it

Originally Posted by Kingfish

... and continue to enjoy my humble little Dovo with plastic scales.
Mike

Wait just a second!

Are you saying that somehow you are trying to justify NOT aquiring a whole boatload of razors!?

As a chemistyry teacher, you owe it to yourslelf to conduct your own research!


What I may suggest is that you may want to try different types of razor grind: you have a full hollow, now try a wedge, a 1/2 hollow (TI Super Gnome). If they are all honed to the same edge (theoretically) you will still find that they give markedly different shave experiences.

Don't ever just settle for one razor!

Originally Posted by Seraphim

Wait just a second!

Are you saying that somehow you are trying to justify NOT aquiring a whole boatload of razors!?

As a chemistyry teacher, you owe it to yourslelf to conduct your own research!


What I may suggest is that you may want to try different types of razor grind: you have a full hollow, now try a wedge, a 1/2 hollow (TI Super Gnome). If they are all honed to the same edge (theoretically) you will still find that they give markedly different shave experiences.

Don't ever just settle for one razor!

LOL!!!!!
You are a man after my own heart, but a a chemistry teacher I always get my students to do the dirty work! You make a good point, my laboratory must be stocked properly!

Originally Posted by Kingfish

LOL!!!!!
You are a man after my own heart, but a a chemistry teacher I always get my students to do the dirty work! You make a good point, my laboratory must be stocked properly!

And to appeal to the chemistry side of things even more, you'll also have to aquire various lubrication specimens (i.e.-lots of soaps and creams, etc....)

And why not mention the vaste amount of aftershaves, colognes and so on while you're at it!!

Originally Posted by cako72

And why not mention the vaste amount of aftershaves, colognes and so on while you're at it!!

Yes, yes.....RESEARCH! RESEARCH must be done!!!!