Electric Razor ???

Hi Guys,

You all know I like playing with different material for scales, this time it's a straight keeping up with the times.

Scales are 1/16" copper laminated fibre with a green solder mask and gold plated contacts. These scales will not tarnish. I used both sides of the board to show front and back design. Fluro green spacer and double pinned at the butt. The pins acutally look like part of the cct.
The blade is a 7/8 Solingen mint, shave ready blade.
You can actually see some fine copper tracking at the cross section edges of the scales.

Enjoy.

btw It is for sale :D

Gary

That looks awesome! :bow

How much are you looking for to sell it?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Iwan

That looks awesome! :bow

How much are you looking for to sell it?

---

$120.00 shipped

Good luck selling it, I'd probably have bought it if I hadn't bought a new DE and 3 straights already this month! :rolleyes:

Now that's inventive!:)

Done already? It looks awesome...

nenad

very nice, I'm usually nice a big fan of the "modern scaled" razors. yYou know, the ones with neon scales and such but this one is actually quite nice.

VERY cool, I like this a lot.

My Paypal account is nearing meltdown from buying razors and the kit needed to get started, so I need to let it cool for a while but will want to talk with you about one of these at some time in the future.

I'm enough of a geek to think about using a favorite old motherboard to get the material from - is that wrong? :hmmm:

Dave

You are getting good, Gary. A perfect razor for the computer guy... :tu

thank god this isnt 8/8 or else I would be very tempted to break my no razor buying promise before christmas!!!

Very clever! I like it.:tu


... uh... one question, though... is it battery powered, or does it use a brick?:roflmao

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by azjoe

Very clever! I like it.:tu


... uh... one question, though... is it battery powered, or does it use a brick?:roflmao

---

It runs off positive vibes..alternately you can use sparrows tears diluted with vodka and stired with frog hair. :roflmao

Nice work Gary. Very clever.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by DMS

VERY cool, I like this a lot.

I'm enough of a geek to think about using a favorite old motherboard to get the material from - is that wrong? :hmmm:

Dave

---

Dave, be careful. Old boards are generally made with tin/lead solder (not good for your health). :td
The board I'm using is RoHs compliant. Restriction of Hazardous Substances. And is very safe plus the gold will not tarnish.:tu

Cheers

Gary

Very nice, Gary. I thought it would look cool, when you were describing it last night. It turned out even better than the mental picture I had.

Ray

Good stuff, Gary.

It's not quite my cup of tea but I appreciate good work when I see it.
:)

Redwoood

Beautiful, a true work of art.

Gary...

How do you tell the difference between the good/bad circuit boards?

Are the RoHs boards marked?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by urleebird

Gary...

How do you tell the difference between the good/bad circuit boards?

Are the RoHs boards marked?

---

Sorry Bill I seemed to have missed this post, you must have thought I'm ignoring you..";"

Unfortunately the only way to tell is to check for lead content. Now this is actually easier than you think. If you contact www.leadcheck.com they will send you a free tester kit which is a simple swab test.

As a circuit board is only part of the finished item they are rarely marked as the components also need to be RoHs. Then again finding blank boards ain't easy.

Gary

Being from the electronics field I think it's very very cool wished I could buy it but on a very tight budget. :tu :tu

That is a beautiful set of scales Garry. Very original too.

I have to get me some pc-boards and give it a try. I think coating them in CA will preserve them from oxidation and wear and eliminate the need to worry about lead contamination.

Next step, slap on a solar cell, LED's and some circuitry and you can can have really flashy scales. :D

Quote:

---

Next step, slap on a solar cell, LED's and some circuitry and you can can have really flashy scales. :D

---

I knew it... I just knew it.:D

Hello guys. I hung out here for awhile in 2006 and was the guy that bought this straight razor.

(see first post for great pics)

Just 20 min ago I discovered my straight razor was on boing boing in 2008!

The post inaccurately said I made the straight razor. I never told Cory Doctorow that I did.

Let me back up. I went to Irvine and saw Cory give a talk about copyright and took the razor to show him. He snapped a picture and I checked up on boing boing for awhile then concluded he wasn't going to post the pic. I'm confused about the timing. I bought the razor in 2006. I'm not sure when I saw him but the way I remember it it was 2007? So my first guess is he didn't post it for a year later and didn't remember much about the convo. It's 2011 so I don't remember much of the convo either, but I'm certain I wouldn't tell him I made the razor. Ok, enough freaking out about that.

All credit goes to garythepenman. (I just pulled a steve jobs :O )

here's the old link on boing boing:
http://boingboing.net/2008/01/22/hom...cuitboar.html#
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/534568901/

Very cool and original...well done

we apperciate you comming back to make sure noone thought you were taking credit for that razor, takes a big man to do that, btw thats a sweet razor.