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    Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
    There is a rule that every gun owner is taught early on

    Never ever, not ever !!!! store your weapon in a Leather Holster...
    never ever, not ever even if its oiled really well? i had a customer store a custom razor, coated in oil and placed in a leather pouch. the razor ended up covered with micro pitting. im making a replacement for the customer but i was curious if something in the leather (Tannins) may be a culprit or perhaps the razor wasnt dried thoroughly enough before oiling, thus the oil trapped any moisture close to the blade surface and caused the rust. is any of that plausible?
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    Leather causes metal to rust I believe because it contains moisture from the atmosphere? I've heard that somewhere but it's generally not encouraged to store razors in leather cases.
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    I'm currently storing my rotation in a leather roll. I haven't had any tarnish or rust issues for the month they have been in there. I do thoroughly dry them before putting them back in and I do not store the roll in the bathroom. There is a Thiers Issard 6/8 from TAOS.

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    Maybe ive gotten lucky, but i store various well dried straights in a cordovan sleeve (makr) with no ill effects. It doesn't close like the TI sheathes though.

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    If you look it up on knife collector sites they'll say not to store blades in leather because of the acids etc. used in the tanning process. I learned this the hard way with a knife gettin damaged. And as someone else said earlier in this thread not to store guns in leather holsters as well.
    I also saw on the S&W site they do not recommend oiling a gun to store it. They've found that it attracts and holds dust, which attracts moisture and they see guns coming back for repair tha have a distinctive speckled pattern of rust because of it.
    I've also read on several other sites dealing with metals that also do not recommend oil for storage/protection. It seems like it should work but ultimately it doesn't .
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    That knife collectors's site is spot on. Too bad they weren't around earlier. I'm sure the amateurs in Solingen could have learned lots of interesting stuff from them. For example, I guess I was bloody lucky to have picked up dozens of NOS blades from the 30s onwards covered in... oil.

    Coming back to the original post: Forgot to properly dry the razor, covered residual water with oil, rust. Same old, same old.

    Oh, yes, and that's is one hell of an attitude: 'I would love nothing more then to tell "The Art of Shaving" their item is defective...' As my late East Prussian grandmother used to say, "It's fine to have an attitude, only, you have to earn it first." Long way to go.
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    rsbyrn, you may have stumbled into restoration work by accident. If I were you (and I know I'm not), I would accept my misstep, and clean up the AS blade. If possible I would buff out the logo if it is applied and not etched. Then I would hone it and call it mine. It is a TI razor, not an AS razor.
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    Are you sure The Art of Shaving sleeve is real leather?
    And don't worry about messing up with the AS razor. We have all messed up one way or another at some time, I would guess. Some more than others, not that I would know anything about that.
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