Thread: best way to store a razor...for 15 or so years

Originally Posted by markevens

Rubbing the blades with oil is probably the most important thing you can do. I'm not sure if you would want to use a machine oil, or a stock cooking oil though.

Do not use cooking oils for long term storage, they get all gummy and hard.

Cosmoline is great stuff for long term storage that isn't sealed airtight. I've known people to use Mylar tubes filled with inert gas and sealed for long term storage.

Cosmoline would probably work well... it's like thick vasoline.
I'll check my gun safe and see if I have any rifles I could scrape a few razors worth off of... Chi-com / Soviet weaponry often came packed in enough cosmoline to store a household full of metal.... I've cleaned several rifles off that were stored in cosmoline for 50+ years and the looked like new.

A.G Russell makes a silicon based material called no rust. It's specifically designed for guns and knives. Once on it lasts many many years. Outside of Cosmoline it's about the next best thing.

I purchased 5 razors at an auction 20+. Stored them in a paper covered wood cigar box and rarely opened it. When I decided to get into straights again because the internet had info on using them they were in the exact same condition as when I put them in the box. Tuf Glide, mineral oil or other stable oil would not hurt. No cooking oils or oils that will go rancid. Since you already have a box try stopping at a cigar shop and ask them for a piece of Spanish cedar, which is what good cigar boxes are made of. Some cigar vendors put a small rectangle of Spanish cedar in the box to take up unused space.

Originally Posted by Brando

Sounds like you suffer from the same affliction as I do CRS

CRS a symptom on Old timers disease.


Sorry for the hijack.

Check this place out. I use it often.

Rust Removal and Prevention Articles

If I was storing that long I would first depin the razor especially if the scales are celluloid & store them seperately... just in case.
Second I would spray the razor with one of those teflon sprays that dry thick like a plastic coating ~~~ less messy than grease.

hey.. could you shrink wrap it?

Gun shops sell socks for storing rifles and handguns that are specially treated to prevent rust. I have heard stories of people who had guns in their safe completely doused with water from a fire, and the guns in the socks came out rust free. The ones that weren't....didn't. While you are there, you can get gun oil for wiping down the razors. They will prevent rust and won't gum up over time.

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Use renascience wax, so far as I know it's designed for museum quality steel going into storage, less likely to be affected by temperature than the oil is...

somehow oil seems safer to me than wax, but it's an itneresting question. its' true that wax - like renaissance wax - is used in museum-type situations. but carbon-steel is a special thing. Maybe the best thing to do is renew the oil once a year?