Thread: Douglas cutlery

Originally Posted by Hirlau

If God gave you the skill & "1" hour to fly a plane, would you choose the latest F-35 Joint Strike Fighter?
or
would it be the P-51D Mustang??????????

SR-71 Blackbird

Originally Posted by HNSB

SR-71 Blackbird

No doubt

I would choose a glider.

Sorry for the irrelevant post...

Fokker DR 1 Tri plane.....ya most definately

Originally Posted by HNSB

SR-71 Blackbird

You'd be moving so fast, all you would see is colored splotches rolling beneath ya.

last thing P 38 lightning with out a doubt.

That is beautiful,,,,,,,,

A dulled razors edge on the right. chipped and broken

Much different from a dulled razor knifes edge. (Exacto) what most people think of as dulled.

That’s the difference between cutting laterally as a knife, and on a bias as a shear (razor). Carbon-Chromium resists this kind of damage. That's not to say vintage blades didn't do very well, good enough to last centuries in fact, it's only to say I went a different way. besides when did good enough become a reason to not do something else.

These pictures by themselves are completely meaningless. So, let's start to put some meaning to them.

First picture:
1) What is on the left side - razor? What kind of razor, grind, steel type, etc.?
2) What is on the right side - razor? What kind of razor, grind, steel type, etc.?
3) What happened to the right side since it was honed and stropped? Shaving? How many times, over what period, maintenance between shaves?
4) What is the scale on those pictures, say the distance along the edge on the left side?

Second picture:
1) What is on the picture - exacto knife blade?
2) How does the exact same blade look like when brand new?
3) What has happened between the blade being brand new and that picture, i.e. what was cut, over what period etc.?

Forget all of this techno-mumbo-jumbo. The bottom line to any razor is customer satisfaction. This gentleman makes a very unique product that seems to appeal to, and satisfy, his customer base. It seems that some folks are throwing his razors onto the Gold Dollar pile because his grind/bevel is unconventional. I wonder how those first hollow grinds were received in Sheffield back in the day. Those early makers didn't have electron microscopes or hardness indexes. They relied on trial and error, experience, feel, and common sense to arrive at a large variety of steels, grinds, shapes, tempers, etc., etc. Their razors either found their niche and then became successful or, like hundreds of examples, became extinct. Like any product this man's razors should be judged by results and not because they are outside the norm.

Regards - Walt

Disclaimer: Even though I live in close proximity to this gentleman I have never met or spoken with him and have never seen or owned any of his razors.