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The World of Razor Sharpeners by Tom Willard

The World of Razor Sharpeners by Tom Willard. STROPPERS. There are approximately 2000 known razor sharpeners/stroppers, not including leather strops, leather strops with handles and straight razor hones. These range from using leather, glass, steel, bakelite and etc. to magnetic fields.

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The World of Razor Sharpeners by Tom Willard

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  1. The World of Razor SharpenersbyTom Willard

  2. STROPPERS • There are approximately 2000 known razor sharpeners/stroppers, not including leather strops, leather strops with handles and straight razor hones. • These range from using leather, glass, steel, bakelite and etc. to magnetic fields. • Types range from simple blade holders to complicated mechanical devices to magnets and may be manual or electric. • www.stropper.com or www.shaveworld.org • The first patents found are as follows: • 1839 – Strop with a handle • 1877 – Cylindrical rollers • 1902 – Magnetism

  3. Stropping • Microscopically, razor blades have minute teeth like a saw blade. • Dull blades have projections to these teeth that cause pulling, when hair enters the spaces between the teeth. • Stropping a blade realigns these teeth by drawing the projections back into line.

  4. Honing • Honing a blade with a 4,000 or 8,000 grit hone removes the teeth completely. • New teeth must be developed using a 12,000 grit hone or a leather strop.

  5. Other Straight Razor Strops and Hones Diamond Edge USA 1864 Torrey Blasdell Roller USA 1904 King Bee USA 1896

  6. Single Roller Type Eversharp, England, 1927 Wizard USA

  7. Tarantella Germany 1934 Leslie USA 1909

  8. Two Roller Type (Note different roller actions) Affilex France

  9. Compax England 1921

  10. Mosshtamp Russia

  11. Blue Beard USA 1925/32/34

  12. Circular Types Strop Rotates

  13. Blade Rotates Rotello Germany 1927

  14. Hone is pulled back and forth Ratio Germany

  15. Blade is pulled back and forth across hone Allegro Switzerland 1921

  16. Machine Pull Handles Type Apollo France

  17. Handle-Like Valet Type Handle-Like Ingersoll Type Ingersoll USA 1925 Handle-Like Ingersol Zig Zag USA 1910

  18. Sets with Sharpeners Fox USA Stropper - 1892/94 (Schmitz)

  19. Kampfe USA Razor – 1889/1901 Stropper 1900/02

  20. Auto Strop USA 1904

  21. Blade Holder Type Wilsonium

  22. Pull String Type Racid Czechoslovakia

  23. Hone-Glass/Other Types Aero-Strop USA Buki, Brazil

  24. Magnetic Types Everkeen USA 1925/29 Magnetic

  25. Ball Bearing / Marble Type

  26. Shake Sharp Types De Haven USA

  27. Rotary Belt Type Multi-Blade Stropper England Mulcuto Germany

  28. Edge-Bak Type Edge-Bak USA 1934

  29. Electric Types Olympic USA 1938 Simmons USA 1933

  30. Other Types Lutes USA

  31. Dey USA 1888/89

  32. DISTRIBUTION BY COUNTRY AND TYPE USA ---------------- 754 England ---------- 166 Germany --------- 154 Switzerland ------- 29 Austria ------------- 25 Australia ----------- 18 Japan --------------- 14 Czechoslovakia - 12 Russia -------------- 11 Sweden ------------ 11 Canada ------------- 10 Denmark ------------ 6 Hungary ------------- 4 Italy ------------------- 4 Ukraine -------------- 3 Argentina ----------- 2 Holland -------------- 2 Brazil ----------------- 1 Netherland ---------- 1 Spain ----------------- 1 Rollers-2 ------------------ 203 Set -------------------------- 166 Hone-Glass/Other ----- 145 Machine-Pull Handles 115 Blade Holder ------------ 100 Hone-Carborundum ---- 90 Handle-Like Ingersoll -- 80 Strop ------------------------ 77 Allegro Type -------------- 69 Handle-Like Valet ------- 66 Pull String Type --------- 62 Auto Strop ----------------- 39 Other ------------------------ 30 Rollers-4 ------------------- 29 Marbles-Bearings ------- 26 Rollers-1 ------------------- 23 Circular --------------------- 18 Electric ---------------------- 13 Magnetic -------------------- 11 Shake Sharp Type -------- 8 Edge-Bak -------------------- 4 Rotary Belt ------------------ 3 Marvel Type ----------------- 2

  33. Stropper Collections Tom Willard USA 1500+ Wilhelm Neubert Germany 1100 Martin Elshoff Germany 900 Guenther Janisch Germany 700 Bruno Lacoste France 400 Alan Zimmer USA 350 Aart Roelandt Netherlands 300+ Morten Danielsen Norway 200+ Per Dahlstrom Sweden 200+ Stan Henry USA 200+ Danny Rosculet Holland 200 Richard Lefebvre USA 180 Rob Kesner USA 150 Dominique Huet France 100

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