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(This post was last modified: 08-26-2016, 09:49 PM by ShadowsDad.)
This is my journey into the intriguing Rolls Razor.
After promising to post this data I looked at it and realized that the best way was just to post my notes and such and let the user sift through it. At least some of it chronicles my learning curve with it. But I also had help, one Marcus Clarke of the UK and member of the now gone The Other Safety Too forum (TOST) where we did nothing but SE razors.
You'll also find in the coming link the reason I used the method I selected. I didn't want to get involved in stones and such but I knew that I wanted to know how to take a 70 year old blade and make it shave worthy without outside help. The Scary Sharp method allows me to do that, and you can too without any special knowledge, just finesse and light moves. If you can shave with a blade you can bring an old blade back to shave worthiness and keep it there. Think a stockpile of disposable blades will give a lot of shaves? Just one Rolls blade will give a few lifetimes of shaves, and they are really fantastic shaves once you learn the simple techniques. But frankly, they are time consuming and disposable blades have the edge there with their convenience.
Read over the information in the link. It should all be there as far as what you need to get going in the Scary Sharp system and to get a shave edge on the Rolls blade. I wrote it so that I could pick it up years later and wouldn't have questions. Even what didn't work so well is there, so skip over that and just stick to what worked. But understand that I didn't just do this overnight. But you can if you learn from my mistakes. Pay attention to the dates at the left of the journal.
OK, the link. Sorry, but the easiest way to do this is to just give access to everything. It may disappear at some point (I might need the space), so I would download to your computer what you want from it. Take it all if you wish. I only ask that the copyright be kept with the files that I wrote. I believe I have kept the credits with the other files that I didn't write; please keep them intact also for those authors.
If anyone has problems reading the WordPerfect files let me know and I'll convert them to .txt, but they will lose the formatting. Any other questions? Get back to me here, but please read the files first. I think your questions will be answered.
Good luck gents, the Rolls can be a great shave and the ability to actually learn how to produce a shave worthy edge, I think, is worth the journey.
>>>>>>>>>Click here<<<<<<<<<<
Bummer! I had to remove a 'net webpage that helped to explain the Scary Sharp method because it wasn't all there.
After promising to post this data I looked at it and realized that the best way was just to post my notes and such and let the user sift through it. At least some of it chronicles my learning curve with it. But I also had help, one Marcus Clarke of the UK and member of the now gone The Other Safety Too forum (TOST) where we did nothing but SE razors.
You'll also find in the coming link the reason I used the method I selected. I didn't want to get involved in stones and such but I knew that I wanted to know how to take a 70 year old blade and make it shave worthy without outside help. The Scary Sharp method allows me to do that, and you can too without any special knowledge, just finesse and light moves. If you can shave with a blade you can bring an old blade back to shave worthiness and keep it there. Think a stockpile of disposable blades will give a lot of shaves? Just one Rolls blade will give a few lifetimes of shaves, and they are really fantastic shaves once you learn the simple techniques. But frankly, they are time consuming and disposable blades have the edge there with their convenience.
Read over the information in the link. It should all be there as far as what you need to get going in the Scary Sharp system and to get a shave edge on the Rolls blade. I wrote it so that I could pick it up years later and wouldn't have questions. Even what didn't work so well is there, so skip over that and just stick to what worked. But understand that I didn't just do this overnight. But you can if you learn from my mistakes. Pay attention to the dates at the left of the journal.
OK, the link. Sorry, but the easiest way to do this is to just give access to everything. It may disappear at some point (I might need the space), so I would download to your computer what you want from it. Take it all if you wish. I only ask that the copyright be kept with the files that I wrote. I believe I have kept the credits with the other files that I didn't write; please keep them intact also for those authors.
If anyone has problems reading the WordPerfect files let me know and I'll convert them to .txt, but they will lose the formatting. Any other questions? Get back to me here, but please read the files first. I think your questions will be answered.
Good luck gents, the Rolls can be a great shave and the ability to actually learn how to produce a shave worthy edge, I think, is worth the journey.
>>>>>>>>>Click here<<<<<<<<<<
Bummer! I had to remove a 'net webpage that helped to explain the Scary Sharp method because it wasn't all there.
Brian. Lover of SE razors.
