Thread: Silver Steel Question

Originally Posted by Zorro

Hello All,
Is there any advantage to them [silver steel]? Quality, shavability (is that a word?), honing, etc.

If the house starts burning, I'm grabbing my Peaso 25 Silver Steel on my way out the door.

All of my razors are sharp enough to effortlessly slice through my beard. The Silver-Steel seems to tip it's hat and offer a hushed "excuse me, please" as it does so.

Man, I love that razor.

zorro,

IIRC silver steel now refers to high carbon bright steel to e.g BS 1407:1970

Silver Steel BS1407 Chemical Composition

Analyis Range (%)Typical Analysis (%)
C 0.95 -1.25 /1.13
Si 0.40 max / 0.22
Mn 0.25 - 0.45 / 0.37
P 0.045 max/ 0.014
S 0.045 max./ 0.018
Cr 0.35 / .45. - 43

Have fun !

Best regards

Russ

Actually no "silver steel" contain silver. I don´t know if the historical one do, but I have serious doubt.

What actually is called silver steel is the steel 1.2210. Here are the incredients: Silver steel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is very good useable for straight razors, because of its high hardness and the fine grain. It is good to polish but not more rust resistend, than any other no-stainless high carbon steel.

Actually there are some razors that do contain silver. A few manufacturers (just after Faradays formulation of the steel) made razors from it - one even a published a paper to advertise the fact. I can't remember the company, but the reference is in the SRP archives from the last time it was done to death - quite a while ago now.

The name survived however and apart from those early examples 'silver steel' merely denotes a bright tool steel now.

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by mbaglio100

If the house starts burning, I'm grabbing my Peaso 25 Silver Steel on my way out the door. ... Man, I love that razor.

I would too if it were handy. I have two (not sure if they are silver steel though) and they are great shavers.

Well, sorry to p*** on the silver steel parade but the one razor I have that says silver steel is not to my liking... Tends to pull. It is beat up so maybe at some point it lost its temper... get it... lost its temper.

Great info gents. I have some homework to do, with pleasure of course!

I have an old Flic razor made of Silver Steel. It is an amazing shaver. After my honing process it produces a smooth and close shave with very little effort. I really like it. I took a chance since it was rusty, but it has cleaned up well and performs perfectly!

Information available for silver steel here:
Silver Steel Knife Steel Composition Analysis Graph And Information Details
I do not know if this is the same steel used for razors or not though.