Saving money on blades!

I think the fact that any of these items even exist should be a reminder to us all how lucky we are that we can just throw away a blade when jt starts to tug.

Thanks celestino !


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Really interesting video. Amazing to see the variation in products all designed to do the same thing.

No problem, gentlemen! I also found the video extremely interesting with all of those options for sharpening tools.

Very nice my friend. Which one do you use?

Freddy, I agree with you about the "Rube Goldberg" attractiveness of them.

I have one of the circular SE strop machines purely for nostalgia. It is pretty cool and is engineered well, but the only carbon SE blades I have are the feather carbons and those are terrible to begin with so no use in trying to make them "better"

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Very nice my friend. Which one do you use?

Hahahaha! None! My blades last long enough for me.

You might be able to extend the life a blade by a few shaves this way but you will certainly remove any coating that may still be on the blade after however many shaves you've already had with it. If you're trying to squeeze literally pennies out of the blade you likely don't put any value on your time. Once you have got the device and "honed" your skill it will still take you a few minutes to strop a blade. Your investment in the stropper and time will never pay out. That said, I do get some strange pleasure from extracting just a little bit more utility out of something, be it a blade or an appliance or whatever. I'm a genetic cheapskate.

Let's interject some scientific reality here. First, this was made for old time CARBON steel razor blades and not today's modern stainless coated/sputtered blades. Bare stainless steel isn't worth a damn to cut facial hair. The secret to today's super smooth shaves is the coating and various other scientific advances. Think of sharpness & smoothness as a teeter-totter that has a fine balance of both sides. Too much in one direction offsets the whole ordeal. Before anyone says "But modern carbon steel cutthroat razors shave great..." remember that a cutthroat razor has more metal & more "spine" as well as having some sort of heat treatment to boot. Also, carbon steel is easy to sharpen but retains its edge for far less time.

Finally, DE blades today are cheaper than ever in regards to inflation. The man that would use this device surely has a bucket of corn cobs beside his toilet and a fodder bag full of oats where a car should be parked.

The guy in the video is obviously a collector and I think, from a historical perspective, that he has a great collection. They have little to no practical value with regard to modern blades, but I doubt he ever thought that they did. I'm very glad he has chosen to preserve this piece of shaving history.