king
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So, few days ago I made conversation with my friend and he pointed to me one thing that I never think about before. He told that some time ago people used to make sterilization of the straight razors using open flame (especially in 19th century but in early 20th also).
Sterilization by using open flame is not problem with full hollows (from the view point of buyer) because full hollows tend to warp lot and that can be easily visible with naked eye but it is problem with wedges and near wedges because it can not be visible so easy. In any case both of them lost their steel properties.
He also give advice to me (worth nothing for e-bay purchases) but it can be useful for buying "eye to eye". He told: "When you are going to buy wedge razor always take hone with you. Make few laps and if you feel that razor is honed "wavy" you can be pretty sure that razor is sterilized with open flame. It is much easier if there is no scales. In that case put the blade on a very thin rope and strike it with coin. Blade must have ring sound, if there is no ring sound chances that blade was sterilized with open flame are pretty high."
So, what are your oppinions about above and how to solve all of this with e-bay and B/S/T purchases?
Thx
Sterilization by using open flame is not problem with full hollows (from the view point of buyer) because full hollows tend to warp lot and that can be easily visible with naked eye but it is problem with wedges and near wedges because it can not be visible so easy. In any case both of them lost their steel properties.
He also give advice to me (worth nothing for e-bay purchases) but it can be useful for buying "eye to eye". He told: "When you are going to buy wedge razor always take hone with you. Make few laps and if you feel that razor is honed "wavy" you can be pretty sure that razor is sterilized with open flame. It is much easier if there is no scales. In that case put the blade on a very thin rope and strike it with coin. Blade must have ring sound, if there is no ring sound chances that blade was sterilized with open flame are pretty high."
So, what are your oppinions about above and how to solve all of this with e-bay and B/S/T purchases?
Thx