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    Default Traded for new toys

    Got this little green box with a microtome in it. Made by American Optical.


    All nice and neat with a tool to keep the bevel at factory setting.


    All put together.


    Has a true wedge blade.


    AND!


    IT'S FUGGIN HUGE!!!!


    That is a 7/8 W&B "AMERICAN RAZOR" for scale. :O

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    You could go in to meat cutting with that thing, LOL!! but man it sure is nice looking How's the shave?

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    Cool.thats what it is used for,cuttin meat.

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    Don't think I'm gonna try shaving my face off with that cleaver.

    In fact I an't real sure what I am gonna do with the silly thing. It was part of the trade on that W&B. LOL

    The W&B was being used to gut deer with hence the bootlace tied through the hole. I HAD to rescue it.

    The ol boy that had it is a good friend and says he has other stuff to gut deer with now as I've sent him two very nice lockback folders to use.

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    Hay! I know of this guy who has this cat............LOL

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    Just one cat?

    I can throw a shoe and hit two or three on any given day.

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    I've seen a few of those before. Not sure if they're actually called microtomes. Microtomes are usually assymetrically ground for cutting thin slices of tissue for view under a microscope. If I recall correctly, those big wedges are used for autopsies.

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    Yea, I have this cat...

    And I would certainly try shaving with it. Just because. While that one probably IS for autopsy work, microtomes were available in a multitude of "grinds" for various purposes.

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    They call them CLEAVERS !

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    Magpie is correct. Microtomes had several different grinds including the asymmetric you mentioned.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microt...crotome_knives

    This particular device came from an high school lab that was being "updated". A teacher friend of mine spotted the box in the trash and rescued it. He collects razors but doesn't use them for anything other than looking at every now and then. We made a deal on the old W&B and he threw that in for giggles.

    Upon a bit more research this thing is a 120MM AO Spencer Microtome Knife.

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