Thread: Steel treatment in new Thiers Isarrd razors?

Steel treatment in new Thiers Isarrd razors?
Hi everyone:
At the rasurpur site, it states the characterictics of the
steel in the new 5/8 Silverwing II as such:
Will all of Thiers Isarrd razors have their steel
treated as such?
Thanks


There it is is. The new 5/8 Silverwing II razor made from the best steel available today.
It is made from the finest and best carbon steel and has an amazingly high content of carbon. (really good carbon steel contains 1% of carbon. This steel has 1.35% carbon!)
Due to a new hardening process the back of the razor is a bit "softer" than the edge. This is giving the razor's back more flexibility and more sharpness to the edge.
The hardness is around 65 Rockwell (The "older" new blanks are around 60-62 Rockwell.)

Originally Posted by tboyer

Will all of Thiers Isarrd razors have their steel
treated as such?

I think this is a question that only Thiers-Issard can answer, because it's entirely up to them to do it any way they please.

I suspect that they would reserve the option to change the heat treatment of any blade they produce any way they see fit.

But even if they've recently changed the process across the board there is always the period before the already manufactured razors under the previous process are sold off. I can't imagine them recalling perfectly good razors and incurring huge losses over something like this.

IIRC when the first edition of the Silverwing came out a few years ago the head guy at TI said that in the future all TI razors would be of the then new alloy. Of course, as Gugi said, TI wouldn't scrap the earlier alloy razors . They were, BTW, quite good too IME. So if you end up with one or the other you'll probably be fine.

The way I understand what TI is doing is to look at the back of the tang...

No Stamp = Historic steel or old system processing

U Stamp = New alloy, Old processing or the reverse of that..

Z Stamp = New Alloy New processing


CarbonSong = The Shizit

But I could be way off there...


What I know for sure!!!! they all hone and shave just fine, and that now, TI should pay some attention to fitting their not so fine scales, to their fine steel ...