Thread: Sweeney Todd, - Not an Ebay question

Originally Posted by burns420

Maybe he's got RAD and is a secret member on here.

If he is a member here I sure hope his stropping has improved.

Yeah, I remember that scene where he strops very slowly with the edge leading and the spine raised. My family got a bit annoyed with me pointing out all the shaving errors in that film..!

Sadly, spring loaded blades are illegal in a lot of places.
I would also think they would be dangerous and hard to hone, since the angle to open it to for shaving isn't the same as for honing.

I think it would be great to see somthing like that that is really a shaver. Can you imagine what your wifes would say? "What, you got what? Your gonna rip your face off."

Originally Posted by prosneek

I think it would be great to see somthing like that that is really a shaver. Can you imagine what your wifes would say? "What, you got what? Your gonna rip your face off."

My wife already says that

legalities aside cause none of us do anything illegal I personally reckon, that would be the coolest shave ever! click, bang razors out... honing wise, you'd be able to semi close the scales they just wouldn't fold all the way back... or do they need to? I'm as yet to learn to hone... My wife would just shake her head and walk away... I've found it's better to ask forgiveness then permission most of the time

Originally Posted by Shopi

legalities aside cause none of us do anything illegal I personally reckon, that would be the coolest shave ever! click, bang razors out... honing wise, you'd be able to semi close the scales they just wouldn't fold all the way back... or do they need to? I'm as yet to learn to hone... My wife would just shake her head and walk away... I've found it's better to ask forgiveness then permission most of the time

Honing aside, it doesn't open up far enough for most styles of shaving... Only far enough to be a knife... That's why, if you look closely in the movie, the bevel is massive...

Or just make it 2 positions-straight open for honing or whatever, and shave position. I don't think spring assisted blades are illegal in most places, at least that's what the sign in the knife store here says. He sells all kinds of them.

Originally Posted by burns420

Or just make it 2 positions-straight open for honing or whatever, and shave position. I don't think spring assisted blades are illegal in most places, at least that's what the sign in the knife store here says. He sells all kinds of them.

If it's spring loaded, it probably can't have two positions (and, the technology to pull that off would cost a metric ****ton to have one custom made)

Also, spring ASSISTED is not illegal, that would be a knife with manual automation of the blade via thumbstud (or the Kershaw back flipper) or some other means of actuating the blade. However, the one pictured here is automatic (Press a button, receive a blade) and that is usually illegal. Knife shows still sell them though, as do most cheap-knife shops... Most quality knife makers don't sell automatics unless you are on duty, or in law enforcement (EG: Benchmade, Kershaw, Boker, etc)

that sucks.. had all the toes and fingers crossed