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Tuesday SOTD Thread, September 30th, 2025 (#840)
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I stropped 80 times before this shave and it paid off. This razor seems to be made of "soft" metal. I think it would be fun to get a Rockwell hardness testing kit to see where each of my razors falls. @gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social has of course demonstrated that some razors don't need much stropping, but he has admitted to choosing razors with "hard" steel.
Yes, next year for AA I need to find a razor that I enjoy, but that has a softer steel. I think that the steels of the 19th and early 20th century were probably in the high 50s HRC. Of those that I've sharpened, the steel reacts on the stones similar to kitchen cutlery with that hardness.