Thread: A weak magnet tells you...?

Originally Posted by WW243

Ernie, the straight edge is a weak magnet, a magnet by proximity to a a real magnet...if I were to put any of my blades on the jig with the rare earth magnets they would glue down quick. This is the weird thing, as the weak magnet is pulling in some razors and not others.

Ok I think I see now what you are saying- it's one of those "magnetic" blades that were a fad for a little while like my Carbo Magnetic?

One possible explanation would be that it is your razors blades themselves that are magnetized to various degrees.

Originally Posted by Wirm

One possible explanation would be that it is your razors blades themselves that are magnetized to various degrees.

Prolly right Wirm
I just demagnetized one of the blades attracted to the straight edge and it died. Science, thanks.

Tried rotating the non attracted blades 180º ? I'm thinking reverse the polarity ie like poles repel but a weak field may give the illusion of not attracting.

Here is what happened. Only one of the razors in this 'test' were on the jig with the rare earth magnets, so I dismissed that as a factor. But after playing magnet for awhile, and having a few voices of reason, I remembered that I once had the razor jig in a top drawer of a chest of drawers and on the top was, right as rain, my razors all lined up in the corpse pose,
resting. So back to my look at concavity in razor spines without the added sky is falling factor.