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    Default Need help looking for a "knife" razor. More inside.

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    Just bought a very expensive straight razor only to be told that I cannot have here (on deployment). Stupid thing is I can still have my knives.

    SO does anyone know of a razor that looks like aknife but still shaves really well?

    Found this but no reviews.
    THE STONE-AGE STRAIGHT RAZOR
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    Currently for Sale | SAGE BLADES
    I think this is close enough to a knife look but still no reviews.

    (anyone in the army knows that this is to stupid of a situation it has to be true and yes its in a policy letter......)

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    Yea, I would do the kamisori thing too..Or a Charlie Lewis primitive... If you try using a regular knife you will rash your face up.. Usually the steel is not as good as a razor... Or you can justt use your straight that you bought.. What will they do? Bend your dog tags and send you home?
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    Worse possibly, depends on the co and how far it goes. At the very least confiscation and a company grade article 15, if they really wanted to push it doing so could result in a court martial for willfully disobeying a standing order. That means loss of rank,possibly imprisonment & loss of all va benefits, without which I wouldn't have been able to buy my house.

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    Without getting into to much detail I cannot afford to get into trouble with what I do.
    Charlie lewis is a custom maker? Does he take special orders and what his turn around time?

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    I (and several others) have reprofiled pocket knives to VERY low angles. I have one that I profiled down to about 10 degrees inclusive and it shaves pretty well. The problem is it hones/sharpens like a full wedge...so it is a lot of work.

    I would recommend a Spyderco Atlantic Salt which is a hollow ground lock blade that is made of H1 which is a material that work hardens and strops/polishes very easily. You will need to find someone to regrind it for you, but you will end up with a nice sheeps foot blade style that should shave well. Additionally, H1 is incapable of rust...so you will have one less thing to worry about while you are on the go!

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    I like the two straight razors on your link to Sage Blades. The Stone-Age Straight Razor looks really cool, and the Wrench Razor is interesting. It gives 9/16 a whole new meaning Are you allowed to take a closed-end wrench? I wonder how well they shave.

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    Quote Originally Posted by striker846 View Post
    Little background.
    Just bought a very expensive straight razor only to be told that I cannot have here (on deployment). Stupid thing is I can still have my knives.

    SO does anyone know of a razor that looks like aknife but still shaves really well?

    Found this but no reviews.
    THE STONE-AGE STRAIGHT RAZOR
    Scroll down a ways.
    Currently for Sale | SAGE BLADES
    I think this is close enough to a knife look but still no reviews.

    (anyone in the army knows that this is to stupid of a situation it has to be true and yes its in a policy letter......)
    PM me the name of your JAG (I probably know him/her). I'd love to find out who is trying to establish this policy letter... I may be able to talk some sense into him...
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    A member of the military, who in theory is 'trained to kill' (your MOS may vary) and has potential access to ordinance that can reduce entire cities to rubble, is not allowed to have with them, an implement, whose design is over 300 years old, to efficiently remove the hair from their own face, which they are required to do. No to mention, if you are deployed in a less 'modernized' part of the world, the local culture is usually fascinated with such things. You just have to love the logic of it all. I would have to ask if this is a standing order or if this is just an Officer 'pulling rank'.

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    What the...?!?! (there is no emoticon to display the dumbfoundedness I feel about this situation!)
    The U.S. Army is prohibiting straight razors to certain personnel deployed in certain areas? WTH(eck)???
    How are you supposed to combat your facial hair, use harsh language?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus View Post
    What the...?!?! (there is no emoticon to display the dumbfoundedness I feel about this situation!)
    The U.S. Army is prohibiting straight razors to certain personnel deployed in certain areas? WTH(eck)???
    How are you supposed to combat your facial hair, use harsh language?
    Now now, that would be uncivilized. Next thing you know you will be promoting the use of questionably interrogation tactics on said hair.

    I agree, but there may be some reason that we don't understand. Least of which could be a policy developed when soldiers wanted a ticket home and "got bumped" by someone when they were shaving and cut their own throat? Just a silly theory...I have no idea really.

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