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    You can scrub the steel if you are worried about radiation.

    I don't shave with a kamisori, but from the woodworking side, white #2 is probably one of the easiest steels for a maker to get right (which in this case means that you're unlikely to get a bum razor). The steel itself is already high quality, so if the heat treating is done even OK, the razor should be good quality if you like the profile of it.

    As far as buying razors from people that are called tamahagane, I would be very cautious about it unless I knew the maker and knew he actually had tamahagane. In the early part of the 1900s (maybe earlier?) the japanese knew that modern process european steel was better than theirs and a lot cheaper, so it's up to you as the buyer to decide how likely it is that tamahagane is actually what's in the razor (in the world of woodworking, the word was used often for carbon steel when no such thing as tamahagane was in the tool), and even if it is, to decide how likely steel made of hammered sand iron is actually better quality than hitachi commercially produced steels or older english or swedish steel.

    Anyway, white #2 should be a very good low risk choice, and if this person made scissors, it's extremely unlikely that they would make junk razors. Good scissors are incredibly precise and difficult to make, they aren't just two straight knives that pass over each other.

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    Couple laps on the 8k and a good stropping and mine became my go to razor.

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    I got mine this morning. Very nice!

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    Nice to hear these are good razors, I've been thinking about one myself.

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    Well, it seems that I also bought one of these in Kyoto just last week!
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