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    Default An end and an answer to the Wonderedge debate



    Sounds like it was cryo treated to me.
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    Speaking of cryo treating razors, has anyone tried this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by pjrage View Post
    Speaking of cryo treating razors, has anyone tried this?
    It'd be pretty expensive. Henckels probably cryo treats their razors. They cryo their kitchen knives. Or was that another company....

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    When I was getting into DE shaving, I had emailed greatrazors.com about cryogenically treating packs of DE blades (brands they didn't carry) I would send in, and they said they'd do it for $10. I don't know how they actually accomplish this, and/or if a straight would fit in whatever they use to cryo, but I would venture to say that they could probably do it for someone who wanted it?

    It would be cool if someone with more experience wanted to contact them and send a sacrificial razor that they know well (how it hones up, how it shaves, how long the edge lasts, etc) in for treatment, and see what happens If not, I'll probably try it at some point when I'm much more confident in my ability to discern potentially subtle differences in honing, shaving, edge retention, etc.

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    i knew this looks familiar

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    I knew the info was somewhere....lazy people in the chat room who can't do searches.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leighton View Post
    It'd be pretty expensive. Henckels probably cryo treats their razors. They cryo their kitchen knives. Or was that another company....
    I believe Henckels "Friodur" is the line that refers to the cryo process, as in "freezing".

    Dovo stainless razors are also made of Swedish steel, and are also cryo treated.

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    It's possible that all the dubl ducks are cryo treated, but only the wonderedge bragged about it. This would be consistent with the statements by that dd guy that claimed that all the razors were treated the same way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mparker762 View Post
    It's possible that all the dubl ducks are cryo treated, but only the wonderedge bragged about it. This would be consistent with the statements by that dd guy that claimed that all the razors were treated the same way.
    Maybe it's my imagination but of two Goldedges, a Satinedge, Hand Forged, and a Lifetime I found the Wonderedge more work to get an edge on and it was in better condition then the others. I attributed that to the cyro hardening.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mparker762 View Post
    It's possible that all the dubl ducks are cryo treated, but only the wonderedge bragged about it. This would be consistent with the statements by that dd guy that claimed that all the razors were treated the same way.
    And thus there is no end, nor answer to the debate....



    I worked for Polaroid at one point back in the day...they used to sell three different "quality" VHS tapes. "Regular", "Super", and "Premium" (not the real names, but you get the idea...)

    It is illegal to sell cheap crap as premium, but not illegal to sell premium stuff as the cheap stuff. To save money by not having to have three seperate production lines, they just churned out the premium tape, and packaged it as three seperate price points--it was all the same stuff!

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