Anti-Rust Straight Razor Roll | Cordura & Silicone Treated Cotton | Made in USA

Description

DO NOT USE ANY OIL ON RAZORS WHILE IN ROLL UNLESS IT WILL ALLOW WATER TO ESCAPE/EVAPORATE!
This
Cordura Anti-Rust 7-Razor Roll
is 100% produced in the USA, of 100% USA materials, a mixture of silicone-and-oil-treated cotton lined with cordura, robust boot threading, and a hearty strap with touch fastener closure.
There’s 7 gates, each 5″ deep, the middle 5 accommodating approximately ~1.5″
(~39mm)
, the gate closest the strap ~1.75″
(~45mm)
, the gate furthest from the strop roughly ~1.87″
(~48mm)
, so you can mix in some older/bigger razors.  The maximum length of a razor it will accommodate is ~6.75″
(~172mm)
.  Weighs ~5.1 oz
(146g)
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Always leave this roll in a place where it can expunge the moisture to a larger environment if possible, and if those larger environs are as crazy humid as a sailboat or a rainforest’s interior
(= routinely ~85% relative humidity or higher)
, we recommend you take the extreme step of putting the roll in an airtight container with some fresh silica gel packets enclosed within
(Ewa Marine make a very thirsty and reusable desiccant option)
.   If the desissant packets start to feel different it is time to put them in a toaster oven at a very low heat setting for 30-45mins so they regain their capacity
(any quality desiccant brand allows you to do this several times, and the Ewa Marine ones go a step further by visually changing their color when it is time to do this)
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I’d like those of you with longer attention spans and minds given to the scientific method to think just a moment about how myopic these two opines upon the subject are;
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“I just dry my carbon steel blades, have never had a problem.”
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“They’re probably effective, but wholly unnecessary. Use your razors periodically, dry them well when you’re done, & that’s all they really need.”
Conditions for oxidation of steel vary wildly! Were these folks in Nevada, in Singapore, or somewhere in between?  While we can be sure that their methods to prevent oxidation proved effective for those genius writers
(in their sample sizes of perhaps just one not-particularly-challenging environment)
, a more scientific mind might wish to ask them what was the highest humidity their blades were exposed to, and what was the maximum duration of said exposure?  If their sage advice had begun
“I live full time on a sailboat with my razors, and…”
, one should perhaps take it as a plan wherever humidity is less intense.  But without qualifiers for how oxidation-friendly the environs, it is effectively meaningless advice.
Carbon steel tools can rust in a single day, or never at all in a century, and the rules of the game never change; when pro-oxidation conditions are presented to the steel, oxidation begins immediately, unfailingly.   A steel’s formulation, level of polish, post-shave cleaning/drying regimen, and the ambient relative humidity of the environment in which the steel is kept will all have a say in whether steel oxidizes or not.   Succinctly stated, if and when such sage advice as above proves inaccurate for you, it is now your problem, and not theirs…but we can be sure they know they’re right.    Perhaps they didn’t think about the relative humidity where they live, and whether it might be exceeded here and there in other locales on earth, before they spoke.
Further online internet expertise upon these sleeves posits
“Remember, they keep moisture out to a certain degree, but they will also keep it in, if the razors are damp when placed in it.”
Well, there’s nothing subjective here; that’s simply untrue.   If you have two equally-damp razors in an otherwise-equal environment, one ‘sleeved’ and the other deployed open, the ‘sleeved’ razor will be fully dried MUCH more quickly than the razor left partially-deployed and open. I’ve tested in many times
(with stainless steel razors)
, & it ALWAYS dries quicker.    While the advice here is NOT to do as I do, a bit of perspective; I can truthfully declare that since the spring of 2010 I’ve relied upon the sleeves for 100% of my post-shaving oxidation prevention regimen.   2010-May ’12 was in oceanfront property, and since May ’12 ~1.5 miles inland. During the oceanfront time, the relative humidity of the domicile rarely dropped below 68%… living inland now conditions are better, but >60% remains commonplace.   In all that time, my routine has never deviated, and I’ve not yet experienced oxidation on a ‘sleeved’ razor; after a thorough rinsing, I give a half-assed attempt to remove standing water with a photographic blower brush
(‘Giottos Rocket Blower’, specifically..the biggest one)
. Next, I spritz a bit of isopropyl alcohol upon the blade to accelerate the evaporation. I then rapidly move the deployed
(open to the shaving position)
blade about the bathroom, securely in my hand
(PLEASE don’t do that! I’m NOT a role model)
. Then I ‘sleeve’ it; that’s it! They are always moist
(hopefully, only with isopropyl alcohol)
when ‘sleeved’, and I’ve never had a bit of oxidation.
Before moving to Florida in ’09, I’d had a “pre-C135” late-90s carbon steel Theirs-Issard razor in a <60% relative humidity environment for a decade or so…I never oiled it in that time, just always dried very well, it never showed oxidation.   Upon moving back home to Florida
(and being unaware upon the issue)
, it oxidized aplenty on the first post-shaving day inside my air-conditioned FL home. I cleaned it with Flitz polish, honed it again, and kept it well oiled until the sleeves came along. When this shop started stocking the sleeves in 2010, I intentionally shaved with the TI, gave a cursory but probably not especially thorough drying, ‘sleeved’ it, and then set the TI outside on a shaded windowsill for 3 days during the summer, on oceanfront property! It already bore some deep oxidation stains that weren’t goin’ anywhere, so I didn’t care too much if the sleeve proved useless, though to be fair I did give it several peeks during the evaluation. It did NOT develop any new oxidation stains, and while that’s an extreme test and likely could have failed, I’d like to think that anyone who believes that a bone-dry version of that same razor outside the sleeve remaining rust-free in that Florida beachfront summer environment is welcome to take their beloved blade to me and prove it!   These things work, and it wasn’t me that came up with them; they’ve proven their mettle protecting things like 19th-century revolvers for years.