Thread: Tennis brand razors - need help deciding

Originally Posted by RADisorder

The blade is stained as you can see in the picture. It is oxidation, rust, but I hesitate to call it rust. Stain is a better description. The reason I say that is that the metal to the touch is perfect. You cannot feel any difference in the texture of the metal as you feel the blade. If it was fully developed rust, you could feel a rougher texture, or something that was tactily different."

In the restoration forum we call it 'rot'.

The fact that you can't feel much difference between metal and the black just means that the corruption of the blade is happening underneath the surface, where it will make an ugly big hole that is pretty much impossible to fix, once it breaks the surface. Kinda like a festering splinter underneath your skin.