I've been doing some thinking with a thing that rests on my neck and primarily used for carrying hats and I came up with a rather silly question: if you open a jar of mustard and drop it on a cat, will the cat run or get knoked out due to the combined forces of the jar and the smell of mustard?
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No, really... as much as droping things on cats appeals to me, that is not my silly question.
This one is, though:
We all know that razors are made of steel, different types of steel that have one thing in common: a well balanced proportion of harndness and the softness required to create a sharp (very very sharp) edge. But ever since I discovered ceramic blades and saw a member here trying to make a prototype razor out of a ceramic blade I started wondering if the use of steel - smart choice as it is - was not a choice made (through history, of course) due to some sort of compromise solution between cost and effectiveness. Perhaps this question should be posted on the Workshop part of the Forum. Feel free to move it there if you wish...
So... in theory can you make a razor out of other materials? I mean, can you make a blade that has the requirements of a razor out of something other than steel? But let's keep the practical things out of the way... forget about costs or the difficulty of honing that theoretical blade.
I'd advance some possible materials:
1) other metals such as silver, gold or platinum
2) metalic leagues as titanium or aluminium
3) non metalic compounds such as ceramic materials
4) stones like silex
What are your thoughts on this? Anybody thought about this before? Might this be possible (mind me: I'm putting aside the feasability of the thing...) or is this Star Wars mumbo jumbo? :jedi:
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