On Christmas Eve I found my wonderful wife, in our bedroom, using one of my Wostenholm wedges to cut boxes and paper while wrapping. Once we were sure I wasn't going to require medical attention I explained the amount of effort that goes into honing and maintaing the edge on a razor. She's awesome and supports my habit but figured they were just "sharp knives". Wow! Just when you think it's safe...
This is not a box cutter!
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So I suppose you lived your sig then?
I sat here and read your post, and I am dead certain I know that feeling in the pit of the stomach you had when the sight registered in the brain.
My wife is terrified of going within 3 feet of my straights for fear that they will leap out and attack her (fortunately for me). Thanks for the post.
My wife is terrified of going within 3 feet of my straights for fear that they will leap out and attack her (fortunately for me). Thanks for the post.
That's why I want to get one of those...
So are we to assume that you were injured in the process of rescuing your razor?
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Panic induced heart attack. My initial response was somewhat un-gentlemanly to say the least. I later apologized.
I had a similar experience with a Gerber skinning knife. It had a pristine edge, I used ceramic rods to keep it razor sharp. Sometimes I used it in one of our rental houses when I needed to patch a linoleum floor. I could cut right on the pattern lines and the patch would not be noticed.
My wife telephoned me at my day job one day asking where that knife was, and like a fool, I told her. When I got home that evening, the knife looked like it was serrated. I asked her what she had done to the knife, and she said "Nothing". I showed it to a knife dealer that was a friend of mine, and he said
"It looks like it's been through the sharpener on an electric can opener".
Confirmed with the wife. I bought her a $2 Japanese knife and told her that the next time the can opener got hungry, feed it with this!
Now, I do all the sharpening in our household.
My wife telephoned me at my day job one day asking where that knife was, and like a fool, I told her. When I got home that evening, the knife looked like it was serrated. I asked her what she had done to the knife, and she said "Nothing". I showed it to a knife dealer that was a friend of mine, and he said
"It looks like it's been through the sharpener on an electric can opener".
Confirmed with the wife. I bought her a $2 Japanese knife and told her that the next time the can opener got hungry, feed it with this!
Now, I do all the sharpening in our household.
ouch! but im bet the wrapping paper and boxes were very cleanly cut. for some reason a couple of the old straights ive bought from car boot sales have come with the advice of "they're really good for gardening" i guess thats why so many are rusted etc. any damage done to the edge?
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Apologies for profiting from your misery, but that was a hillarious read.
And a good lesson to be learned.
And a good lesson to be learned.
I once rented a million-dollar house for a very reasonable sum, since I had to be out of the house for a month during the summer and three weeks at Christmas (they were living in England but came back a few times a year). When I was moving out, I hadn't yet packed the kitchen and they were moving some boxes back in; I found some friend of theirs opening their cardboard boxes with my nice Henckels paring knife.
It wasn't a nice straight razor, but I understand your situation.
It wasn't a nice straight razor, but I understand your situation.
You must hide your obsession a lot better than me. My wife knows I'd through a wall-eyed fit if she got caught doing something like that with my straights...
At least it was a wedge.
A full hollow likely would not have survived!
A full hollow likely would not have survived!
Apologies for profiting from your misery, but that was a hillarious read.
And a good lesson to be learned.
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Yikes! I would've lost my mind. 
That's OK. Just borrow her most favorite or most expensive perfume and use it to sanitize the garbage pail. Har Har.
I'm pretty sure that's a time machine. One of the older models, not the new kind.
"new" time machine. "old" time machine. Thazagoodone
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OK, here's what I don't get. Razors are certainly sharp, but they're not exactly designed to do anything except shave. I've tried to imagine what type of precarious grip would've been used to hack away at something like a box or what techniques one would use to cut paper. All the solutions I could come up with seemed quite dangerous, and it seems like this thread could've easily involved a trip to the ER.
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I mean...
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OK, here's what I don't get. Razors are certainly sharp, but they're not exactly designed to do anything except shave. I've tried to imagine what type of precarious grip would've been used to hack away at something like a box or what techniques one would use to cut paper. All the solutions I could come up with seemed quite dangerous, and it seems like this thread could've easily involved a trip to the ER.
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