Thread: New TECH,MAYBE

If it was properly honed it would cut right thru rather than splitting the hair

good point

I'm with Oz - splitting a hair requires a finer edge than "shaving" a hair like in the video. Also, without anything to help us "calibrate" the test being done in the video, it's nothing more than a parlor trick.

Sorry guys...this is a pipe dream. Gillette will pay millions of bucks to the patent holders to buy this technology and then toss it onto the top shelf. There's just too much at risk if the tech gets out into the public.

Even if it is sharp and smooth enough to shave with, what will it be like when it needs stropping. And what would you do if you had to touch it up on a hone?

Not if you do it correctly

"The blade is polished until the cutting edge is sharpened to
only a few nanometers, therefore consisting of merely a
few atoms."



I'm pretty sure that would cut through whiskers pretty handily. I'm also pretty sure it would cut my chin or my lip right off too.

The technology is fine for Gillette or Wilkinson.

We don't need anything more than a good carbon blade and some simple honing tools.

I was sent an article on this a few wks back. Just prior to receiving the article, was reading a post by Robert Williams about the ceramic knife blades. He sold his ceramics, 'cause they couldn't be maintained.

Where this technology might be useful is w/ the DE crowd. So what if a blade cost $35 - if it lasted 6 months or more?

If "too sharp is just right", is "much too sharp" even better? <g>

Charles

Originally Posted by pinklather

Where this technology might be useful is w/ the DE crowd. So what if a blade cost $35 - if it lasted 6 months or more?

I'd give odds they build in a planned obsolescence of much less than 6 months or raise the price accordingly.