Only works for carbon steel blades. If you got a treet, or a 1907 Gillette, or a blue blade that you want to bring back to life, rub it on a sharpening stone for a couple minutes and throw it in this stropper. Works everytime.
Even if this worked, which is doubtful, you could get 400 silver blue blades for less than fifty bucks. I'll bet they would last a lot longer than this contraption would.
I have this. I have NOT found it to put the blade to a near new blade. Therefore it seems to to he of little value. When invented, the blades were not what they are now. Perhaps this worked well with pre-stainless steel blades? I just have not found it making much if any difference. The other type if blade sharpener seems to work really well for single edge blades. This I mean for bench work Not shaving. Makes a dulled blade perform much better. But DEblades are really a different beast. That's my experience anyway. Wish I could say different.
They will work just fine if you throw some lapping compound on it. I have yet to see a type of steel that does not get sharpen via diamond lapping compound.
It does not come close to a new blade. I got one at an antique store. It was like 20 or 25. It has not saved my DE blades. I did try it with a new, unused vintage blade. I could not shave with it even after stropping. Just did not get it good enough.
Nobody sells these or the disk you are turning anymore. Does anyone know where to get? This is one is the "disk" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CVadNcubE8E.html I really want to find something like this so I can get a nice polish before using it
Hey Joe Stack thanks for the video. Was wondering if there was any worry of this wearing out? I only see them sold on ebay (used). I assume it's just some wet stones for sharpening and some mechanical pieces to turn the blade to sharpen. I'd totally pull the trigger on one of these if they would last me virtually my entire life
These gadgets are expensive , you can buy 100 new Astra's or Sharks for $8 bucks. Gillette Wilks are $6. Besides if my wife saw me play "Jack in the box" , She would have me committed.
First of all, you might want to learn how to pronounce the word "stropper." Second, you seem to be under the mistaken impression that the Twinplex can strop and restore a modern DE blade. It cannot. It can and does chew the hell out of modern blades, which only are coated. After that coating wears off, the soft metal underneath cannot hold an edge. The Twinplex chews up soft metal and makes the edge worse, not better.
No. The sharpener is not the problem. Modern blades are made of soft steel with a hard coating. When the coating wears away the blade is done. By analogy, you can sharpen a butter knife but it cannot hold an edge I have examined DE edges coming out of a twinplex stropper. The edges were shredded. This guy is wrong.
General Zod That sharpener costs $50. You can get 500 Voskhods for $50 including delivery... They last 3-4 shaves. 500 will last you for 4-5 years. Blades get rusty. If you want to waste time spinning blades in that thingy... Spinning girls is funnier.
