ARGHHHHHH! Microtome!

[Antique Hoosier]

Go ahead and laugh..... I'm trying to....

In my delight to find a handful of NOS Puma Straights yesterday, I managed to purchase a Puma 16 INOX Microtome!!!! This was not my intent obviously. I did snag a Puma 91 High Class NOS ( no longer because I gave it a few strokes on a Tony Miller Pasted Paddle Strop and shaved with it). I have purchased hundreds of razors online and off and this has to be one of my biggest bonehead moves! I let the excitement of finding such a rare treasure cloud my eyesight I suppose.

 

[dakotaev]

Go ahead and laugh..... I'm trying to....

In my delight to find a handful of NOS Puma Straights yesterday, I managed to purchase a Puma 16 INOX Microtome!!!! This was not my intent obviously. I did snag a Puma 91 High Class NOS ( no longer because I gave it a few strokes on a Tony Miller Pasted Paddle Strop and shaved with it). I have purchased hundreds of razors online and off and this has to be one of my biggest bonehead moves! I let the excitement of finding such a rare treasure cloud my eyesight I suppose.

It would be a shame not to use such a razor. I wouldn't feel bad. Just keep it in "NOS like" condition and I doubt resale value would go down much if you decided to let it go in the future.

 

[pz93c]

Nothing wrong with a Microtome.

Think of it as a folding Kamisori.

 

[Troggie]

Some of my best shavers have been Microtomes.. I have found some that are even ground similar to a straight so there is no special honing required. If it doesn't work out I am sure there are plenty of us on here that may be interested in it

 

[Antique Hoosier]

.....Just keep it in "NOS like" condition...

Exactly my intention indeed. This one will see no use from me. Likely will be traded for something I'd enjoy using.

 

[johnmrson]

I've managed to get some excellent shaves from a microtome.

 

[ccrowder]

Ok.. coming from a career as a scientist when I saw microtome my brain went to the machine we use to make thin tissue sections. While a shaving razor is not far off to some extent.. what is a puma microtome and what makes it different =p

 

[mdunn]

Ok.. coming from a career as a scientist when I saw microtome my brain went to the machine we use to make thin tissue sections. While a shaving razor is not far off to some extent.. what is a puma microtome and what makes it different =p

its a razor that was only ground on one side, so you can slice your slides that way. a fair few straight makers made them too

 

[Thebigspendur]

Nothing wrong with a Microtome.

Think of it as a folding Kamisori.

No, it's nothing like a kamisori, totally different.

Some have adapted them for shaving. Personally I'd keep it as a collectable.

 

[Seraphim]

No, it's nothing like a kamisori, totally different.

Some have adapted them for shaving. Personally I'd keep it as a collectable.

Aside from lacking the mystique of the Orient, what is the difference between a ground on one side microtome and a ground on one side kamsori?

 

[life2short1971]

Kamisori are actually ground on both sides.Not exactly flat

 

[Thebigspendur]

Yes the kamisori is ground on both sides and the sides are different and the entire blade is canted in one direction. The microtome is strictly a one sided device. Totally different.

 

[mjclark]

Ha ha - I got one too!
Arrived this morning and I didn't know what it was til I got pointed to this thread:

I hear they make wicked shavers when rehoned properly

 

[Brooksie967]

Pics of all the nos razors or it didn't happen.

 

[Brianskeet]

To me the pictures make it look even more like a folding Kamisori than I had imagined.

 

[Antique Hoosier]

I remember this event.... eccentric knife dealer in Georgia sold me a handful of NOS Puma.... All long gone

 

[life2short1971]

The microtome are halfway to a to good razor...just need to finishing the grind. I think someone wanted to go home early on a Friday and the microtome was invented

 

[Wullie]

Mine's not a PUMA but it is a microtome.

It's also damn near big enough to cut wood with.

That's a 7/8 W&B for scale.