The ones from India are £50 to £100 & shipping and excessive at that price but the Bulgaria ones only £20 and very intriguing designI had a Lillicrap hone in once ... it's from an era when DE blades were a LOT more rigid. For blades of any flexibility, the curve becomes useless. It's a nice piece of kit if you're collecting redundant shaving artefacts. Apparently, folks could also strop/hone their blades on the inside of a drinking glass, using the same sort of curve.
I've got one, but I think I've lost the box, which knocks a lot off the value. The glass is uranium glass, which is mildly radioactive (note to self; must remember to shave my hairy paws and clip these claws tomorrow), and, as you say, they're not much use for modern blades. I have used mine, not very successfully, for touching up old Valet and Gem-type SE blades, and with a suitable blade holder, I suppose it could do something for wedge blades. However, as you say, they're more of a collector's piece than anything else.I had a Lillicrap hone in once ... it's from an era when DE blades were a LOT more rigid. For blades of any flexibility, the curve becomes useless. It's a nice piece of kit if you're collecting redundant shaving artefacts. Apparently, folks could also strop/hone their blades on the inside of a drinking glass, using the same sort of curve.
That link didn't work , is that what the item from Bulgaria is called “ the sneak “ ?Moving this to DE Blades.....
Looking around, it seems that nowadays the main interest in re-sharpening blades lies among the cartridge razor user community, for whom there seem to be a number of gadgets, many apparently based on the "better mousetrap" design principle. As we are up to our ears in statistics at the moment, it would be interesting to see the relationships between blade cost and resharpening for DE blades then, and cartridges now. But I digress..... anyway, suffice to say that re-sharpening "disposable" razor blades was very much a thing folks did in the past. There are probably as many sharpening devices as there are blades and certainly some blades warranted their own sharpeners.
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