Thread: Does your razor pass this test?

What did that boot do to deserve that?

I'll don't think I'll be trying that at home

Originally Posted by stimpy52

What did that boot do to deserve that?

I'll don't think I'll be trying that at home

Hear Hear! The People for the Ethical Treatment of Boots, Phonebooks and Plastic containers demand huge reparations! Oh won't somebody please think of the boots, phonebooks and plastic containers!

With enough force and speed, I don't see why that wouldn't work with wedges (other than just shattering like glass). Getting enough force with razor geometry might be difficult, though.

Looks like a $50 Chinese katana from Musashi Swords. The diamonds don't look even on the tsuka and the ray skin looks fake to me.

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I guess that means i need to send my razor out to be honed again

More astounding that the edge can handle being whacked repeatedly into pieces of wood and still go on to chop a boot in half!

I don't know if any of my razors can do that or not, but I'm not ruining a good edge to find out.

Originally Posted by rupert87

More astounding that the edge can handle being whacked repeatedly into pieces of wood and still go on to chop a boot in half!

Not so much so in my opinion. Even dull kitchen knifes can pass the paper shredding test. When they FALL STRAIGHT down and through without rolling out like that and without any force, they're sharp (like razors probably do, though the wide hilt may cause them to roll, with knives/swords/etc where there is a less definite wedge shape, this doesn't happen). This is sharp for a sword of course, but it's nowhere near as sharp as a razor, because quite frankly if it were, it WOULDN'T hold up to that kind of treatment. Even the hardest materials on earth when edged as narrow as a low angle edge kitchen knife or razor will have their edge ruined by applying the amount of force that these swords edges take.

Knife edge and hollow ground (what I'm assuming razors are), are always much much sharper than the kind of edge combat knives and swords take, because they aren't expected to hold up to this sort of use.