¡100% CHARITY! Dedicated Lapping Plate Straight Razor Hone Shaping Shave Ready

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¡100% Charity 5-Day Auction!
If You Lose This One Check Again, More to Come!
I'm even picking up shipping, and this thing costs > to mail to MST/PST!
This item's introduction to the market was always about influencing ~10-yr use of European straight razors, and never about some massive profits involved with inventing such device.  In fact, at this writing after all this fuss net profits are ~70 + ~86 paid remaining inventory.   Knowing from the outset that costs to design/make the first one would be difficult to recoup in sales, I still forged forward to pay to learn, and help grow a business sector whole
(upon which you've unfortunately been cornered to high dependency)
.   While this business is indeed a tiny one even if managed to survive 12yrs, ~00 of stock isn't that much, even for us; hell, in 2020 two Deutsche Post pieces went AWOL and never came back and all we've got are brilliant German finger-pointing routines and a >00 lesson "Thou Shalt Not Ship Cheaply When the World Is Inverted'
(technically in their German heads they're still in transit, and a man in Canada, I kid you not, just emailed us last week that 2 nipper parts shipped *MAY 2020* just arrived...who knows, maybe my 2 DP boxes will show up!)
Suffice to say we're comfy peeling off of what remains to benefit St. Jude's b/c the ole sick kids thing; in 2019, I offered all honing-for-hire to 100% benefit St. Jude's and I'm very proud of my sum donation.   But that ended up eating gobs of time, time that I need to try and use to make money off of you via selling straight razors that don't get returned, not literally having your hands and attention stuck upon one knife until it is done, whenever that is and not a moment sooner.   Helping expedite this SKU's vaporwareness to <2 mos f/ net cost 00 + ~0 shipping's a good trade, since I do really have a
(small...don't kid yerself, yer still certain for valid reason I'm an awful person)
soft spot for sick children.   Let us reduce one by one to here in the 5-day auctions, there's 10x ellipses @ time this sentence on mothership, so if you don't win this one be patient and try again, last one's likely to get away with lowest donation.
All I'm asking from you all is mandatory, and it'll cost me that much to ship it to you.
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Fellow human, if European razors cease to be produced, this author would likely lose their home - so you can be sure the goal at all times at this eBay vendor's pages is to keep this great tradition alive.  Down with beards!   Screw your dumb wanker beards!   You all look stupid!
This is a sandpaper holder, made of 6061 t6 aluminum, intended to help shape any razor hone
(you buy your hone separately, and if you choose an unmounted Naniwa Super Stone you will think you've died and gone to heaven)
.  You’re just buying a shape, really; if such rigid shapes could be found easily in nature
(and we could take them toward our sinks for their easy use)
, this plate would offer no function – but you’ll find in seeking that some shapes are indeed a tough source.
Forming your hone with this plate produces a concave cutting edge
(bevel)
upon your razor, which is how Western Hemisphere hollow ground straight razors have been produced since the later 1800s.
Unfortunately until now, there was never an easy way for end users to maintain a wheel-shaped hone.   By contrast, it’s always been easy for home users to maintain a flat stone
(in spite of how common it is to find a dished
{= concave}
old hone)
.   This is the reason one so often reads that flat hones are ideal for straight razor honing.   But flat (V-shaped) cutting edges are not ideal for straight razor shaving, and never were.
If the goal of honing a razor is to produce an edge with the maximum possible comfort available from that particular razor, the geometric position which accomplishes this is with the bevel itself also made concave
(by using a wheel)
, and as thin as possible until it would crumble from becoming too thin for its assigned task
(we do not approach that risk here with this tool on any properly-hardened Western razor, btw)
.
- Concave
abrasive fields produce
convex
, durable cutting edges
(inappropriate for shaving)
.  You’ll find them upon axes and other tools designed for rough jobs.
- Flat
abrasive fields produce V-shaped
flat
(= isosceles triangle)
cutting edges; less durable than convex edges, more durable than concave edges, they’re appropriate for shaving (but not ideal).
- Convex
abrasive fields produce
concave
cutting edges; more fragile than flat V-shaped or convex edges, materially thinner, with a reduced edge radius, and a reduced effective cutting angle versus any convex or V-shaped cutting edge produced upon the same tool.
This lapping plate produces a cylindrically shaped honing surface.   This causes your hone to move at times within the hollow grind of your razor, like a wheel, and that is why
you see your bevel get wider.  It is a wider, lower angled, and physically thinner bevel than before.   This is mathematics.
If you require proof of this method being preferred exclusively for its honing results [and are blessed with a dutiful attention span and some ability to translate German], the 175-year-old textbook
Polytechnische Mittheilungen Volume 3
(c. 1846)
pp 28-43 will teach you more than you ever knew before about straight razor sharpening.     Today’s straight razor enthusiast should understand that while advances in abrasives have certainly occurred since the dearth of the straight razor as common man’s tool, much information from that time was also lost to history or simply never arrived to the English-based PDFs Google Book world and is “buried” in old fashioned paper in some libraries on Earth.    The published information is present, somewhere, in German and other languages, but only if you know what to search in non-English languages and in physical locations of physical books.
Unfortunately and as completely ridiculous as this sentence should hopefully appear to you if you’re just entering this theoretical discussion, there’s a cabal of straight-razor-centric-forum-enthusiasts who are as a lot much more concerned about appearing not to know about a nineteenth century honing innovation
(and doing everything in their power to squelch the English dissemination of this knowledge)
than they are about getting the best shaves for themselves.   See for yourself on nearly any US-based forum!
What you will not find, in time, is anyone selling these 11x9" concaved plates secondhand unless they’re taking some profit from the low price they paid St. Jude's here and flipped it later
(like a boss)
.   Never say never, but the odds another 9x11-inch straight-razor-specific lapping field is ever offered commercially is almost impossible, in this professional opinion; our competition will look at how fairly we’ve been treated for reintroducing this old sharpening technology, and realize that whatever people state as fact upon shaving forums, real or otherwise, is today’s gospel!   But you, the intelligent caring straight razor user with a soft spot for sick children, can vote with your dollars in the opposite direction.