Thread: Rock Blade Uk???????

I've just had a look, they are based in the UK, and yet they will not sell to UK customers?



I dont get it!

I too looked though the pictures quickly and didn't notice any straights at first.

Manah obviously had a better look and found this one:



The man on the right who does the intro say's to click on him to find out more... This links to ebay where there are 3 listed (very cheaply). Wonder how they would shave??

They have an interesting decription of their product:

The long tradition of high class Damascus knives continues with the new edition of straight razors. At the same time, RockBlade is setting a new technical standard. Thus far, almost no one has dared to produce a Damascus straight razor with more than 180 layers. In the standard forging process, there is a great risk that different layers of steel are exposed at the very fine edge of the blade, thus creating a "micro saw" on the cutting edge. Our Damascus forgers have solved this problem and are forging the RockBlade’s Damascus blades with more than 300 layers of high quality carbon steels. The blade steel guarantees a very high hardness without the danger of chipping. This piece is a must-have for any collector.

CUSTOM HAND MADE DAMASCUS STEEL STRAIGHT RAZOR / KNIFE - eBay (item 160540908174 end time Feb-07-11 17:23:26 PST)



CUSTOM HAND MADE DAMASCUS STEEL STRAIGHT RAZOR / KNIFE - eBay (item 160540940739 end time Feb-07-11 19:06:30 PST)



CUSTOM HAND MADE DAMASCUS STEEL STRAIGHT RAZOR / KNIFE - eBay (item 160540945643 end time Feb-07-11 19:23:58 PST)

Interesting disclaimer on their eBay ads

Note: Some of our Straight Razors may not be good enough to do the Shave

If you're serious email them & ask where the razors are made. They look no different to the other Pakistani made damascus razors on eBay

Os,

Interesting disclaimer

Very funny disclaimer.

I love the look of damascus steel, but all that I read leads me to believe it's not suitable for razors. Not long ago I saw a custom one one the web, step by step kinda thing, and the solution was to weld a strip of steel to make the shaving edge. Can't for the life of me remember where, and didn't bookmark it.

And that disclaimer would keep me from buying them even if I could afford them. Something not right about making a razor that may not shave and selling it anyway. I'm just saying.

Some of the knifes were very pretty, though.

Originally Posted by Snake

And that disclaimer would keep me from buying them even if I could afford them. Something not right about making a razor that may not shave and selling it anyway. I'm just saying.

They can get away with it since they call it a Razor/Knife lol

Originally Posted by Catrentshaving

They can get away with it since they call it a Razor/Knife lol

To quote a great American...

Them, my friend, are weasel words!

For some reason I think most will know who is attributed this quote.

Originally Posted by Snake

I love the look of damascus steel, but all that I read leads me to believe it's not suitable for razors.

If you get the chance to shave with a damascus Zowada you'll change your mind.

Thanks for all the input......yeah the "cheese factor" within their website and the funky disclaimer are telling me to spend my money elsewhere. The gun/knife shows comes into town in a few weeks so maybe I will find some goodies there. Always hit or miss at those things! Besides, razors are identicals to firearms in the sense that....you can never have too many!

Originally Posted by onimaru55

If you get the chance to shave with a damascus Zowada you'll change your mind.

I've seen the Zowada blades, and they are all beautiful, if I could I'd have a dozen of them just to hold them. Probably never will, though... that "if you have to ask the price..." thing. They look as expensive as they look beautiful. Since you seem to have hands on experience I have to defer to your assessment, and stand corrected.

I have to admit that I never shaved with a damascus blade. I never meant to give the impression that I did.

When I looked for and read about damascus razors, most of the literature I found indicated that it's not the greatest blade for reasons that all here probably know. I read a few articles that said they were fine, and even found some damascus blades that don't look variegated (!?!?). Yet the vast majority of the articles, including that of the one builder that welded regular steel to the damascus blank for the edge, indicated the material is not best suited for this.

Being the uber noob, I have to assume that it's an chancey proposition at best to get such a blade, and this position is reinforced by at least some manufacturers indicating that their damascus steel razors may be unsuitable for (gasp) shaving.

No disrespect ever intended to damascus blades, their makers or their owners.