Hi,
What are the causes of chips on straight razors?
What are the causes of chips on straight razors?
Causes of chips on straight razors?
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Most often a clumsy knock on a faucet.
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How hard is it to break one? I mean, do they chip very easily? Havent chipped one myself yet, knock on wood.
A full hollow can chip really easy if dinged. Like in very easy, just a tap on the faucet can do it.
That is why many use a towel or sponge & wipe instead of rinsing.
The very edge is really really thin and through daily use eventually you can get tiny microchips.
I always heard it was razor gnomes.
I fixed a chip for a new shaver who damaged his razor on the handle of a loom strop. If you hit anything metal with even moderate force the edge can chip.
I can be pretty clumsy at times which is why I wipe my blade on a big sponge and don't rinse it in the sink.
Its easy to chip a blade. If you drop a straight razor, especially if its a full hollow, you're likely to mourn its loss.
Stainless shatters more easily than carbon steel, but either way if you drop it, it most likely marks the end of service life for that particular blade.
Stainless shatters more easily than carbon steel, but either way if you drop it, it most likely marks the end of service life for that particular blade.
From my experience chips occur when wobbly blades catch the edge of a scale when closing.
Yep, that blade can't wobble in it's scales. It needs repair when it does.
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