Saving money on blades!

I saw this on the Portuguese forum:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti...xSqQ8_YsCc

This is very interesting. I wonder how well any of those work...

Cause then I could spend even less on blades!!

pretty cool. I think it begs the question as to whether or not it's worth the time since most DE blades are so cheap as it is.

This is amazing! The prepper (and cheapskate) in me approves.. lol!

I wonder where to get one of these? And how long one blade could last if you just keep on resharpening it with one of these gadgets.

I was just looking at this and it mentioned inside of a glass. Similar to the half pipe like items in video. Going to have to get it out. I have towel stropped in my DE razor, and feel like I have gotten a few extra shaves out of doing so.

That blade is waaaayyy more sharp than a Feather now.

I was thinking of taking my blade bank and do all of them in front of the TV during a show. Though since I have been changing a blade once a week, I could try sharpening like this for time that it would take to change blade. Then see if it would last another week.

Big savings...no...especially with my Astras being only about $0.11 a blade. The joy that I made something last longer than I normally would if just throwing away...priceless! <- As usual YMMV.

Old blades were carbon steel.
Will it work with modern blades?

I have to say, probably not so well.

Very interesting video. He's got a nice collection and the music isn't terrible. I noticed he was handling the blade with the sharp edges... what's up with that? I suspect the blade shown was quite dull.

As someone who has stropped a Rolls blade I am highly dubious about those methods in the video. Not even the Rolls jigs that are designed to work with the Rolls Razor work as advertised. Others have tried them and I did also. Maybe someone somewhere is successful with them, but I don't know of anyone.

OK, I'll write more. I know a gent in the UK who strops his carbon steel SE blades. But he strops them by hand and only carbon steel. I tried to strop my Rolls with the supplied jigs and after many hours gave up. I wound up using a modified Scary Sharp method that worked fantastically. It's simply not as easy as the sharpening jigs in the video make it appear to be.

My disposable blades are just that; disposable. I buy SE blades for about $.20 last I checked and per shave they cost me under $.01 per shave. It's just not worth my time to strop a blade for longer life. It makes far more sense to me to just stock more blades. Or if I really want to get costs down, to just use a Rolls and have a blade that will last for generations if it's cared for and kept sharp.

I have also tried to strop a Valet Autostrop blade, but it was a stainless blade of modern manufacture with miserable results. So then I tried to strop a brand new blade just to see what would happen and I destroyed the blade. Maybe it would work with a carbon steel blade, but I don't think it will bring a blade back to the sharpness we associate with a shave worthy edge today. I suspect in years past that the definition of shave worthy edge was lower than what we expect today if those sharpening jigs worked for them. They may also have had lower shave standards also, as men on the farm would shave once a week, so any beard reduction was a shaven face.

If anyone tries any of those sharpening jigs I'm extremely interested in how you make out with them. I wish you success, and my failure doesn't mean you won't be successful. Frankly, I hope they work for you. Please keep us updated. Yup, the prepper in me finds the idea quite attractive, I just haven't found those to work (the ones I tried) to work in practice.

pretty cool.  I think it begs the question as to whether or not it's worth the time since most DE blades are so cheap as it is.

Very interesting video. He's got a nice collection and the music isn't terrible. I noticed he was handling the blade with the sharp edges... what's up with that? I suspect the blade shown was quite dull.

As someone who has stropped a Rolls blade I am highly dubious about those methods in the video. Not even the Rolls jigs that are designed to work with the Rolls Razor work as advertised. Others have tried them and I did also. Maybe someone somewhere is successful with them, but I don't know of anyone.

OK, I'll write more. I know a gent in the UK who strops his carbon steel SE blades. But he strops them by hand and only carbon steel. I tried to strop my Rolls with the supplied jigs and after many hours gave up. I wound up using a modified Scary Sharp method that worked fantastically. It's simply not as easy as the sharpening jigs in the video make it appear to be.

My disposable blades are just that; disposable. I buy SE blades for about $.20 last I checked and per shave they cost me under $.01 per shave. It's just not worth my time to strop a blade for longer life. It makes far more sense to me to just stock more blades. Or if I really want to get costs down, to just use a Rolls and have a blade that will last for generations if it's cared for and kept sharp.

I have also tried to strop a Valet Autostrop blade, but it was a stainless blade of modern manufacture with miserable results. So then I tried to strop a brand new blade just to see what would happen and I destroyed the blade. Maybe it would work with a carbon steel blade, but I don't think it will bring a blade back to the sharpness we associate with a shave worthy edge today. I suspect in years past that the definition of shave worthy edge was lower than what we expect today if those sharpening jigs worked for them. They may also have had lower shave standards also, as men on the farm would shave once a week, so any beard reduction was a shaven face.

If anyone tries any of those sharpening jigs I'm extremely interested in how you make out with them. I wish you success, and my failure doesn't mean you won't be successful. Frankly, I hope they work for you. Please keep us updated. Yup, the prepper in me finds the idea quite attractive, I just haven't found those to work (the ones I tried) to work in practice.

Guys, I definitely agree with both of you.  Still, it's the gaget lover in me that finds them intriguing, not whether or not they will save me money.  I still delight at Rube Goldberg's time saving inventions.  (I know, I know, most of you youngsters are wondering, "Who the heck is Rube Goldberg."  If you're curious, see here: https://www.rubegoldberg.com/about/.)