The above was a NOS C-MON Microtome that I picked up a few years ago. For those of you who are not aware of these, they are designed to cut very thin paraffin imbedded fixed tissue to make microscope slides. They are hollow ground on one side, and a near wedge on the other. The above picture is how I received it.
When it came time to hone it, all of the research I had done, and from people who had honed these and shaved with them suggested placing one piece of tape on the hollow side, and 4 to 5 pieces of tape on the wedge side. I tried it with 1 and 4 pieces of tape, and I learned that the blade was severely warped. I decided that I was not going to do that much honing, constantly changing tape when it wore. So I put it into my straight razor case thinking that I would probably sell it with full disclosure, but the fact that C-MON made very few of these, I thought I would try to recover the intrinsic value. About a year and a half later, it was still in my razor case, and it bothered me every time I went in to retrieve a razor. I finally got fed up and decided that I was either going to make it shave for me, or I was going to ruin it. Below are the pictures I took after setting the bevel on an Atoma 400 using no tape.
Now it shaves very well, and I enjoy shaving my face with it from time to time. However any intrinsic collector value that it may have once had is now gone. But it means more to me as a shaver in my rotation.
The above was a NOS C-MON Microtome that I picked up a few years ago. For those of you who are not aware of these, they are designed to cut very thin paraffin imbedded fixed tissue to make microscope slides. They are hollow ground on one side, and a near wedge on the other. The above picture is how I received it.
When it came time to hone it, all of the research I had done, and from people who had honed these and shaved with them suggested placing one piece of tape on the hollow side, and 4 to 5 pieces of tape on the wedge side. I tried it with 1 and 4 pieces of tape, and I learned that the blade was severely warped. I decided that I was not going to do that much honing, constantly changing tape when it wore. So I put it into my straight razor case thinking that I would probably sell it with full disclosure, but the fact that C-MON made very few of these, I thought I would try to recover the intrinsic value. About a year and a half later, it was still in my razor case, and it bothered me every time I went in to retrieve a razor. I finally got fed up and decided that I was either going to make it shave for me, or I was going to ruin it. Below are the pictures I took after setting the bevel on an Atoma 400 using no tape.
Now it shaves very well, and I enjoy shaving my face with it from time to time. However any intrinsic collector value that it may have once had is now gone. But it means more to me as a shaver in my rotation.
The above was a NOS C-MON Microtome that I picked up a few years ago. For those of you who are not aware of these, they are designed to cut very thin paraffin imbedded fixed tissue to make microscope slides. They are hollow ground on one side, and a near wedge on the other. The above picture is how I received it.
When it came time to hone it, all of the research I had done, and from people who had honed these and shaved with them suggested placing one piece of tape on the hollow side, and 4 to 5 pieces of tape on the wedge side. I tried it with 1 and 4 pieces of tape, and I learned that the blade was severely warped. I decided that I was not going to do that much honing, constantly changing tape when it wore. So I put it into my straight razor case thinking that I would probably sell it with full disclosure, but the fact that C-MON made very few of these, I thought I would try to recover the intrinsic value. About a year and a half later, it was still in my razor case, and it bothered me every time I went in to retrieve a razor. I finally got fed up and decided that I was either going to make it shave for me, or I was going to ruin it. Below are the pictures I took after setting the bevel on an Atoma 400 using no tape.
Now it shaves very well, and I enjoy shaving my face with it from time to time. However any intrinsic collector value that it may have once had is now gone. But it means more to me as a shaver in my rotation.
