Thread: Bartmaan Manganese Steel.question

I arrived late for this question.

Branding the razor with the word Maganese is, as has already been stated, simply marketing.

Personally, I don't want the stuff in any steel I can get as it affects the heat treatment for what I want to do with the steel. Even as I say that, it has it's purposes and can improve steel for particular functions. It's often found in greater amount in work hardening steels. That was mentioned above.

Manganese ore is found naturally associated with iron ore deposits. It cannot be eliminated from steel during the smelting process unless expensive means are used and those are simply not practical. As a percentage, the steels I like have between 0.3 and 0.5% manganese in them. Just doubling that percentage can make it difficult to achieve features I like to see. A very little Mn has big effects.

I'd bet that blade is a good shaver, marketing and metal mysteries aside, use it.

I hope you didn't pay anything exorbitant for your Bartmann,I have two and bought them because of the name and picture,but I think I didnt pay more than $40 for both of them. The good thing is that they are great shavers,and should serve you well,and as I said there cool looking
Enjoy

actually this was 8/8. Price 600. I know not suppose to say it. Hopefully anyone will not make a big deal about it. Well Filamonica is on ebay right now a NOS. So hopefully it be fun times with that one as well ^_^ ....

Originally Posted by darkraijin

actually this was 8/8. Price 600. I know not suppose to say it. Hopefully anyone will not make a big deal about it. Well Filamonica is on ebay right now a NOS. So hopefully it be fun times with that one as well ^_^ ....

We should see this as dedication. People do seem ready to pay quite a premium for 8/8 or wider blades, and I often wonder what shape of noses they have. Not you, of course - I mean all those other people.

That's in interesting point. How do people get a razor that wide under their nose without amputating their top lip from the bad angle? This does explain those tiny little Japanese "nose razors" I've seen for sale, though.

Grow moustaches, maybe? I think a lot of the very wide Sheffield wedges date from a time when moustaches were more the norm than they are today. Quite possibly the fashionable gentleman about town, especially if he wanted to eat soup, would have both one of those, and a little 4/4 razor for the upper lip.

have few 5/8 ...but ever since i got hooked on 7/8 8/8 and 9/8 ...been with it. I have not so butcher hands (like my pal i cal 16 knuckles in 1 hand) =) .... I did not want the razor to slip out of me hands as far as bartmaan went. That sepefic seller is also selling now a Globusmen 6/8. Quite a hunt but we'll see ^_^