Search:

Like Tom says, "Learning every day;)"
Steve, I had to look up what exactly demagnetizing a watch meant, beyond the literal meaning. Pretty easy to grasp. In the process of reading about it, I read...

I'm thinking Darl had a pile driven, and an H beam put on that. Then he would have welded on a piece of 1' plate steel and mounted the demag to it.

Here is what happened. Only one of the razors in this 'test' were on the jig with the rare earth magnets, so I dismissed that as a factor. But after playing magnet for awhile, and having a few...

Prolly right Wirm
I just demagnetized one of the blades attracted to the straight edge and it died. Science, thanks.

I'll make a deal with you frendo, I don't tell you what to do with your time, and you don't tell me what to do with mine.

Exactly.........

Ernie, the straight edge is a weak magnet, a magnet by proximity to a a real magnet...if I were to put any of my blades on the jig with the rare earth magnets they would glue down quick. This is the...

One of the razors which does not respond to the weak magnet is a 19th century Greaves. Another is a mid 20th century Fon Golden Star.

I have a steel straight edge. It is stored near (and not that near) 3 small rare earth magnets (in a sanding jig). Today I was looking again at concavity in straight razor spines. I noticed this: ...