I'm of the mind I'll get the lions' share of scum and whatnot off with repeated dunks. The idea of changing the mechanical seating of a blade, if it's correct to begin with, is just playing the odds something will change: a hair lifts one end, a bit of soap scum gets moved into the cutting surface and dragged into a pore afterward, I cut my hands on the dis/reassembly because I've 'played the odds' I'll get away with it - again!



When I'm speaking of using a blade, I might get as many as 12 shaves with it these days.



(My arbitrary number, which seems to work by the way, in response to "How many shaves can a Man get from one blade." I might really get into it some day and try to see if I can get the count to 24, if I can learn to jhook without hearing the cutting sound. Seems to me, after getting past the bloody cuts, shaving could be performed the same way you want to "cut" food items - drawing a cutting surface along as like a very (very) controlled diagonal saw blade and not as like a chinese chef's knife (dragging perpendicular to the line of travel.) BtB: I am IN NO WAY SUGGESTING ANYONE TRY THIS. (It's just one of those "hypotheticals" 'Physicists' use to discover the way the universe really works!))



Merlin's Rambles.