Thread: Unusual materials as related to straight razors

I have a serious problem and it is one that has afflicted me all of my life. Not bragging but quite the contrary, more or less not living up to the potential that a 180IQ has afforded me. Just because I have an IQ that puts me in the range of most geniuses does NOT mean that I am intelligent by any stretch of the imagination. All it does is make it harder for me to cope in this world. Adding on top of that the fact that I am ADD and OCD creates even more obstacles. The best way to put it is that I am scatter brained or a flibbertigibbet (real word, look it up), just one step away from the looney bin. The reason I give you this non-pertinent information is so that you might understand where this next bit comes from. Because my brain is constantly working and never shuts up I usually get overwhelmed with all the ideas that flood in. One of the things that has been continually creeping into my thoughts is the use of MDF(Micro-defect Free) cement for items that it would not neccessarily be considered for such as scales and brush handles. MDF cement is a combination of calcium aluminate cement and polyvinyl alcohol. It has high strength and moisture resistant properties that would make it an excellent, if not unusual, choice for a material to use in those applications. I have also been toying with the idea of using it to manufacture hones. Due to a clerical error I find myself in possession of over two pounds of Chromium Oxide and not a lot of ideas of what to do with it. I was thinking that a mixture of CrOx and MDF cement in a mold with pressure added might just produce a usable hone. Just one of those things that keeps running around in my head attempting to drive me absolutely batty so I put it out here for your consideration, ridicule and/or thoughts.

Your IQ is 180?? Never would have guessed that in a thousand yrs

Hard to believe, isn't it. I was tested several times when I was growing up because they thought that I had a severe learning disorder. The first time they got the results back the psychologist couldn't believe that I had scored that high and so had me retested to confirm the first. My brain is like a finely tuned Ferrari with half of the spark plugs missing, it runs, just not that well.

Originally Posted by guitstik

Hard to believe, isn't it. I was tested several times when I was growing up because they thought that I had a severe learning disorder. The first time they got the results back the psychologist couldn't believe that I had scored that high and so had me retested to confirm the first. My brain is like a finely tuned Ferrari with half of the spark plugs missing, it runs, just not that well.

Not that bright but Austistic and can understand the problem.
~Richard

You would need to know the grit rating of the calcium aluminate you would be using, no point in using 0.5 CrOx unless the calcium aluminate is of equal or lesser size. The other problem i can see is how to adequately mix the components in order to achieve a consistent abrasive. Give it a go! We can discuss it until the cows come home (and with the drift towards urban living that's going to be a long time for most of us), the only way we'll know is if you actually make one. Who knows, we may all be filling our trash cans with Nortons and Naniwas by this time next year!

Impressive. You are saying your IQ is higher than most on the level of Da Vinci in fact and higher than ... Stephen William Hawking was born on 8th January, 1942 in United Kingdom. His IQ is 160. He is devoted to the core fields of science and have worked on gravitational theorems in the framework of general relativity, and many theoretical predictions on black holes stating that they emit radiations and known as hawking radiation. He attended Oxford University in 1959 when he was only 17 years old.

He was the first to explain the cosmology thesis by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He is a vocal supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Stephen is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the highest civilian award in the United States. He was also a professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009.

I put this out here because I know from experience exactly what will happen if I attempt to do this, NOTHING. I lack the focus necessary to put this into motion and so I figured to get others involved to see what they could come up with, if anything. I had considered the X factor of the grit rating for the calcium aluminate and I guess that I will have to do a little more research into it by reading a few more Engineering Journals to see if it is even listed.

Believe it or not, there are a LOT of people with extremely high IQ's that have done nothing with it. A few years ago I was involved in a Nation wide research study for ADD and the effects of stimulants as well as anti depressants. Part of the study was another IQ test. I was not even in the top 10% of IQ's, in fact I was barely in the 50% of the study. The highest IQ was a young man that was rated well off the charts in the 230-250 range of intelligence but because of the ADD he had taken to years of self medicating using just about every illegal drug possibly known to man and he still tested in the super genius range.

Go for it. Add another item to be desired/coveted. Feed the need for the masses. We need to start thinking of a name for this revolutionary product (should it come to fruition).

As an aside, and not to derail this thread, early in my ill fated marriage, we let ourselves be Guinnea Pigs for a friend taking a psychology course and had to give some IQ tests. I think one of the underlying (and festering) causes of the divorce was because I tested 15 points higher than her. No words were spoken but the look on her face told volumes of how she was thinking. As a wag or two would say, "That's life", "Tough T****e", "Live with it" or some such thing.

There are a couple of different models for IQ testing, so to properly compare you need to know the test used and how that correlates to scores from different types of test.
AH having a high IQ does not necessarily make you academically gifted. But I don't think this thread is about intelligence it is about making hones, i think the intelligence part is essentially irrelevant.

If you want to know something about making a synthetic hone with that combination send a PM to randydance062449 . I doubt there is anyone on this board, with the possible exception of Charlie Lewis who knows more on the topic.