[TheForge] any uses for used double-edge razor blades?

[G. Watts]

My great-grandfather used a "Kriss-Kross" blade sharpener for his razor 
blades - kinda neat...a quick search on ebay yielded several results...
George.

On 6/19/2012 3:55 PM, Bruce . wrote:
> Some folks used to resharpen them.  For those who've never seen them, the
> sharpeners are fine "stones", concave cylindrically.  You flex the blade
> slightly into the concavity and move it back and forth to sharpen the
> edge.  IIRC the devices gave some sort of assistance with this, but it's
> been years since I've seen one.  (I've little use for razors...)
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:10 PM, terry l. ridder <terrylr at blauedonau.com>wrote:
>
>> hello;
>>
>> as i was shaving today and changed the blade in my razor i started
>> thinking if there was any use for used double-edge razor blades. even
>> dull ones which will barely give you a shave will strap paint off of
>> glass. i was thinking more along the lines of built up billets.
>>
>> are they too thin?s
>> made of too varied metals and coatings to be worth the work required
>> to make them usable?
>>
>> i use the double-edge safety razor because i have seen enough of plastic
>> floating in the oceans and do not want to add to it. yes, in the middle
>> of the wide oceans there are plastic handle razors floating amongst the
>> six-pack plastic rings, plastic bags, etc.
>>
>> the mass of junk from the japan tidal wave is just now beginning to wash
>> up on the pacific northwest coastline.
>>
>> --
>> terry l. ridder ><>
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