Thread: bone scales preventing rust ?

Hi guys. This might seem odd and could be just coincidence but I have been looking for cheep tatty razors to do up on eBay for the past few months to feed my RAD and have noticed something a bit odd.

Almost all the razors I have seen with bone scales have very little rust or patina below where the blades go into the scales. I am wondering if anyone else has noticed this or if there is a reason for it. My first thought is that maybe the bone absorbs any moisture that happens to be aground the blade (within reason ofc). Here is an example of what I seem to keep seeing Vintage Cut Throat Razor | eBay

Has anyone got any thoughts on this ?

I would think correlation, not causation, but I think Jimmy may have once been mistaken about being mistaken.

I would think if that were true there would be none in the area around the pivot. I have to agree that the formation or lack of is curious in this case. There are so many factors that it is a tough one to try to figure out. We are talking about the life of this razor spanning quite a few years. It does fit the bill for what you are looking for though.

Interesting,bone do's contain collogen and has an oil content,for how long I have no clue.

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Originally Posted by RezDog

I would think if that were true there would be none in the area around the pivot. I have to agree that the formation or lack of is curious in this case. There are so many factors that it is a tough one to try to figure out. We are talking about the life of this razor spanning quite a few years. It does fit the bill for what you are looking for though.

Lol your right it does fit the bill but I'm trying to curb my buying a bit, I seem to have acquired 28 razors in that past 3 months. All of them need work to some extent.

I've decided I better be a bit more selective and have a goal rather than just buy anything that is cheep and could have potential. I'm going for a 7 day set of military wedges which I'm going to scale in rimu wood (acquired from my brother whose house in NZ had lots of it, the house was old and damaged in the earthquake so they tore it down but saved the rimu). I'm rambling about on now.

Back on topic, I agree you would expect the pivot are not to havfve rusted/patina if it was true. Its just I keep seeing the same pattern on allot of the bone scale razors

I guess the breakdown of plastics could cause more rust but looks like rust on the edge of that one

Bone is porous and will absorb liquids. Never put a drop of oil on the pivot of a razor with bone scales, it will suck the oil into the bone and discolor it. It could also be that the folks that had bone scaled razors simply took better care of them.