I was watching the movie Soylent Green and noticed in the opening scenes Charlton Heston is shown shaving with a DE (Black handle SS?)but before he puts the blade into the razor he rubs it inside a glass. I assume that this may have been a way to debur the blade. Has anyone every tried this or was it just improv on the part of Heston to show that he had to reuse a blade because of the state of the world? Just wondering.
Soylent Green
- Thread starter keebank
- Start date
One common form of stropping is to run the blade edge along a flat bevel of a waterglass--I hear it was a common technique in the depression. Glass strops made especially for that purpose pop up on eBay from time to time.
Or strop it against a mirror. Did that a lot to keep them sharp; seemed to work for another shave or two.
Older DE blades could be stropped and re-sharpened a couple times. Modern blades are too thin, and have coatings that would be worn off, so it's not a common practice any more.
Or it could be that it's not a common practice because people are shaving with cartridge razors instead of DE.
Countless articles in Scientific American, including microscopic photographs have discounted the practice as ineffective at best.
The mind is a wonderful thing and if we want to believe something, no evidence will stand in the way.
Look at how many folks argue about hanging a brush in a stand to dry it, or how Lilac Vegetal doesn't smell good.
Okay, maybe I went too far with the last example.
The mind is a wonderful thing and if we want to believe something, no evidence will stand in the way.
Look at how many folks argue about hanging a brush in a stand to dry it, or how Lilac Vegetal doesn't smell good.
Okay, maybe I went too far with the last example.
Just to add to what everyone else has said, he not only has to reuse blades, but uses an ineffective and outdated way of keeping them sharp. It helps to show that he's human, can do dumb things, is backwards because of the state of technology and society, and a brute besides. There's a lot of that kind of thing in the movie.
