Thread: Let's See your stainless blades!

A very cryptic reply eod7, maybe after a few beers later I will understand?

Yes, keep drinking.

I sent a friendly message to the ebay seller just making him aware of a few of the more prominent names to produce stainless razors and this is the response i got from him:

Hi, Do you shave with a straight razor? Have you ever honed a stainless straight razor? If you will hone both the carbon steel and the stainless steel, you would throw the stainless one out the door. The stainless one's are OK with the replaceable blades like the hair style people use. If you don't hone razors then you need to try it.

And what, pray tell, was your response to that garbage?


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

And what, pray tell, was your response to that garbage?


Mick

Without trying to be rude: I DO shave with a straight razor, 7 days a week and yes I've honed both carbon and stainless blades on naniwa chosera sharpening stones and I have an ozuku mizu asagi japanese natural finishing stone.

I think you should go to the world's largest shaving forum and read about stainless razors. Straight Razor Place - Welcome to Straight Razor Place
I'm a member there. I really think you are mistaken as the stainless blades produced by henckels, dovo, hess, boker, etc are actually more expensive than their carbon blades. Sure the stainless are a little harder to sharpen (they require more laps on a stone to remove steel) but they also maintain a sharper and longer lasting edge.

Sometimes you have to take the babblings of an ebay seller for what they are babblings.

Bob