Interesting "high-tech" custom scales

Saw this on boingboing today, some custom scales made of a circuit board:



Full story here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/22/homemade-circuitboar.html

I thought this was a pretty clever bit of custom scaling, myself!

I don't know how I feel about that. In one sense, it's very cool. I love sci-fi and techie stuff. But in another sense, It's a flippin' straight razor! It's about tradition and heritage and history, not silicon. Anyway, just my thoughts.

Hmmmm, from that link.

Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels over the years: a beautiful straight-razor that Jack brought to my talk at UC Irvine last year. Jack used an antique cut-throat razor then made his own handle using circuit boards.

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O RLY? I suspect "Jack" is lying or at best being economical with the truth, since garythepenman made that razor in 2006 and sold it on SRP.

Lovely work by Gary though, his thread is linked below.

http://www.straightrazorplace.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7582

Not a big fan of the blade, but I quite like the scales. They look good in a weird way.

I like the scales. However, Its not something I would add to my collection but I find it very interesting to see material like that used for razor scales.

Steelforge said:

Hmmmm, from that link.



O RLY? I suspect "Jack" is lying or at best being economical with the truth, since garythepenman made that razor in 2006 and sold it on SRP.

Lovely work by Gary though, his thread is linked below.

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Good to know - I submitted a comment to boingboing with that info, we will see if it gets accepted.

Eh... As much as I like computers, it seems pretty tacky to me.

I think Gary called it the 'Electric Razor" . . .