What the? Damascus steel corn razor blade?

[amishmotorboat]

Is this for real?
Is there some other thing that looks like damascus steel that might be used in a corn razor?

 

[jacksam]

Looks real..

 

[Shavely Manden]

Either damascus steel or just really dirty steel.

 

[amishmotorboat]

Well, yes, it's dirty too, but I've just never heard of such a thing - damascus steel in any kind of replaceable blade, much less a corn razor.

 

[johnmrson]

It might just be a coating to make it look like Damascus. I've got a nice French frameback at home that looked like it had a Damasus blade. When I went to clean it up using the buffer, the Damascus pattern quickly disappeared and I was left with a standard carbon steel, shiny blade.

 

[Ski-Patroller]

Could you explain what it is? I'm not knowing?? (The Corn Razor, not the Damascus Steel)

 

[amishmotorboat]

It might just be a coating to make it look like Damascus. I've got a nice French frameback at home that looked like it had a Damasus blade. When I went to clean it up using the buffer, the Damascus pattern quickly disappeared and I was left with a standard carbon steel, shiny blade.

Are you sure it's really gone? I've heard that polishing can wear the pattern away, and an acid bath brings it back?

Could you explain what it is? I'm not knowing?? (The Corn Razor, not the Damascus Steel)

It's for scraping corns off your feet.

 

[mdunn]

Are you sure it's really gone? I've heard that polishing can wear the pattern away, and an acid bath brings it back?

Yah, the damascus pattern is etched on, its not that the steels are those different colours, they just etch at different speeds

 

[iamdarkangel2005]

This is similar to the merkur corn razor. Most people don't use this blades for shaving, but selected few have done so with great expectations. So far only merkur had those blades.

 

[Chester]

Could you explain what it is? I'm not knowing?? (The Corn Razor, not the Damascus Steel)

A corn razor is for trimming off those callouses that show up on your feet in the places that (generally) make contact with your shoes. The skin is quite thick on them and they can be shaved off. I used to simply snip them off with a nail clippers, but I've found that a cuttlebone works pretty well, as do some of the more aggressive emery boards.
Hope it helps,
-- Chet

 

[GeorgeMason]

To me it just looks like staining or dirt, any damascus I have worked with you can actually feel the 2 different types of steel. Now mind you all I have worked with is only called Damascus and really is just pattern welded steel and has been 1084/15N20, so my experience is some what limmited.

 

[whydert]

I thinks these Apollo blades are real Damascus.

 

[Casey]

Yah, the damascus pattern is etched on, its not that the steels are those different colours, they just etch at different speeds

Etch with TSP or something similar and the pattern comes right back.