Thread: Keep Razors Dry

No Don that is not too cautious. If your bathroom gets humid, keep 'em out of there.

Jeff

Originally Posted by DonOhio39

Lynn,
What kind of mug do you put your "using" razors into? In the bathroom? I'm wondering about the humidity from the shower. I was pretty much planning to remove mine from the area and keep them in a drawer in the bedroom. Am I being too cautious with this aspect?

Don in Ohio

I kept my first razors in a mug in the bathroom. I was constantly getting staining on my blades then too.

I now have a place in the bedroom where I can keep them in pen display stands and no more issues.

The bathroom, especially if you have just one with several family members using it will stay humid for hours each day.

Tony

Hi Don, I just use large "Harley" mugs, but it's pretty dry here, I shower with the door open as no kids and basically am the only one who uses this bathroom. Lynn

Thanks, Lynn. That just wouldn't work here. Our bathroom would make a decent walk in closet, pretty typical for a ranch type house built in the late '50s
Of course having 3 people in the place doen't help any either!

Don in Ohio

Originally Posted by adjustme69

Hi Guys, I got a bunch of razors to hone last week from multiple people and it made me think it might be time again to talk about really drying your razors out after shaving and keeping them dry afterward. The razors this week were stained really badly and some even had rusting in the edges going on. We are talking nice singing Dovo's and SS even along with some other Solingens and a couple of Swedish razors. When Shaving I usually keep a faucet running and rinse off the whisker only touching the blade in the water and trying to keep any water from going up near the handle or hinge pin. I then wipe the blade dry and am ready to shave another area repeating this process until the shave is complete. I then set the dry blade down on the sink open while I'm dressing. After dressed, I come back and wipe the blade one more time, strop it and put it back in the blade mug. This seems to work pretty well. When I transfer one from the mugs to the permanent display, I add protection with a Tuf-Cloth. So far so good. I know some of you guys use other protectants which are just as good. The main thing is to make sure the blades go to bed dry!!! Like any other tool, the straight razor needs to be cared for to continue to work properly. All thoughts welcome. Lynn

I follow this routine. Because I usually use my razors in a rotation and after completely dried I place them in my rotation box, before putting it away I wipe it down with Tuf-Cloth. That really seems to work well for me. After shaving drying and stropping I put it in my DOVO stand and let it sit for 24 hours before putting it away. Just to be safe sometimes because I keep my razors in the bathroom, I will wipe down the blade with Tuf-Cloth just before placing in my DOVO stand.

Originally Posted by superfly

Nice topic... For all this time I have changed various maintainence routines. At first, the razors were getting dryed with towel, and couple drops of sewing machine oil or mineral oil were aplyed all over the blade, pivot and handles. This makes the pre-stroping process a pita. First washing the blade with soap, drying, stroping, shaving, soap, dry, oil e.t.c. Now I dry the razor, and aply oil with paper tisue only to the blade, not the pivot. Since it is very thin layer of oil, I can sometimes get away with just wiping the oil away before stroping... But, I think am gonna try Lynn's method with just good drying only... My new DOVO (carbon) got few black spots on the blade even after oiling. Maybe all this treatment with water, soap, 96% alcohol don't do good on the blade. We'll see...

Nenad

I've expericenced these black spots on my prized Dovo
> http://www.classicshaving.com/catalo...940/190282.htm
which I cannot seem to get rid of , I thought I was pretty through drying it .
Could anyone advise on how to get rid of these -I read ( not sure if it was on the forum ) not to use metal polish on the blades .

Originally Posted by Garry

I've expericenced these black spots on my prized Dovo
> http://www.classicshaving.com/catalo...940/190282.htm
which I cannot seem to get rid of , I thought I was pretty through drying it .
Could anyone advise on how to get rid of these -I read ( not sure if it was on the forum ) not to use metal polish on the blades .

You can use a little "Maas" to remove the spots and I know that a lot of guys here use it to clean up spots on their razors. Perhaps you're not drying the blade well enough. Dry using a hair dryer after you wipe the blade clean to really get all the moister off it. If the blade is really kept dry, there's no way it can rust

Originally Posted by Garry

I've expericenced these black spots on my prized Dovo
> http://www.classicshaving.com/catalo...940/190282.htm
which I cannot seem to get rid of , I thought I was pretty through drying it .
Could anyone advise on how to get rid of these -I read ( not sure if it was on the forum ) not to use metal polish on the blades .

I used some metal polish, and they cleaned fine... I am drying my razors well, and I have no idea what causes those spots...

Nenad

I've already misbehaved and have a bit of rust around the pin. What should I use to get it off? WD40 on a q-tip or some such?

Try a piece of a cloth diaper or similar rag stretched tight over a credit card and try and get in there with some metal polish such as MAAS, Flitz, Wenol, metal-Glo, etc etc. Follow with dish soap and a toothbrush scrubbing, then dry thoroughly and add a drop of oil. ***Another tip.. I always try to keep my pivots dry (unless I shave in the shower, and that's usually my Dovo INOX), but if I do get some moisture in the pivot, I keep a can of air with the little straw under my sink. You know the ones, canned air sold at computer stores, etc for blowing out keyboards, camera lenses, etc. It blows out the pivots well, then a drop of sterol worked into the pivot keep the planets happily in line.

Jeff.

Originally Posted by jleecbd

I've already misbehaved and have a bit of rust around the pin. What should I use to get it off? WD40 on a q-tip or some such?