Thread: Anyone here ever used a razor as a weapon?

The way to use a straight as a weapon is to open the razor and hold the scales in your closed fist with the blade all the way open on the outside of your fist and, obviously, the edge pointing away from you. You can then make punching motions towards the face with a hooking motion. It leaves a nasty cut on the face and arms, if raised in defense. You're not going to kill the other guy, unless you're lucky and hit an artery in the neck, but it will keep an attacker away.

Try a Google Video search of "Capoeira and straight razor"....
You will find some interesting things in there, and No I don't think they are effective in a real life situation but it is cool to watch...

Originally Posted by Chimensch

The way to use a straight as a weapon is to open the razor and hold the scales in your closed fist with the blade all the way open on the outside of your fist and, obviously, the edge pointing away from you. You can then make punching motions towards the face with a hooking motion. It leaves a nasty cut on the face and arms, if raised in defense. You're not going to kill the other guy, unless you're lucky and hit an artery in the neck, but it will keep an attacker away.

Just what kind of barber school are you attending in Italy?!

Is it Siciilian?

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

Ive seen it used, its not impressive. I would rather have an open and flexible hand than to make it damn near useless with a straight. The only thing a straight has as an advantage is myth and the fear around it. It will leave scars, but the blade is too thin to cut deep. You shouldnt even concern yourself with it, one of the worst weapons in the world for face to face.

Hmmm... I read somewhere that in the 19th Century London, a Chelsea smile was made using a straight razor. I don't know if the Chelsea smile was a superficial scar, or it was a cut from the skin throughout the mouth cavity. Any English gentlemen might have some more detailed information on this.

It depends who's holding it. You can kill someone with a key, or a pencil, or two fingers for that matter.
I'm sure it would make quick work living up to it's name as a "Cut throat razor". Granted, it's not a combat Ka Bar knife, or Glock, but it'd work.
How many guys who chimed in have actual combat experience?

ANYTHING can be used as a weapon, just that some things are better than others...


Marines had it right w/ the K-bar, much better than a strait....

Razor sharp wits are probably the most effective weapon.

Razors were weapons used by youth gangs in the 1950s and the idea there wasn't to dispatch someone but rather to just slice them up. Used by a skilled knifefighter you can do some real damage but the only really vulnerable area for a razor is the neck. You don't have to cut deep but you have to get close and be very fast.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Razors were weapons used by youth gangs in the 1950s and the idea there wasn't to dispatch someone but rather to just slice them up. Used by a skilled knifefighter you can do some real damage but the only really vulnerable area for a razor is the neck. You don't have to cut deep but you have to get close and be very fast.

Right, a slice on one of the carotid arteries might be enough to make the bloodstream to the head be interrupted and ultimately cause death.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Razors were weapons used by youth gangs in the 1950s and the idea there wasn't to dispatch someone but rather to just slice them up. Used by a skilled knifefighter you can do some real damage but the only really vulnerable area for a razor is the neck. You don't have to cut deep but you have to get close and be very fast.

Inside of the upper arm, and the femoral artery on the inside of the thigh are very vulnerable to a blade and can be very fatal in a short amount of time.