SURGICAL STEEL VS OBSIDIAN SCALPEL PRO

most of us know first hand (usually left hand ) how easy it is to cut yourself. On the sharpness issue, yep you can get your tools as sharp as scalpels if your technique is good. It would be rather off to get up to hone them. For some surgeries I'll use upto 15 scalpels (blades actually as the metal handles are resterilizable), some of them give up after one incision (TRULY 'one-use-only' disposable ).Īcceptable edge life is probably about 3 minutes in hand surgery. (Or if you must, be VERY careful).Īnother point is as resterilizing is unacceptable for blades price constraints limit the quality of the steel so 'surgical steel' can actually suck big time. I'm planning on following it with a strop, which is supposed to be approximately 16,000 grit.

SURGICAL STEEL VS OBSIDIAN SCALPEL PRO

$70 for an 8 x 3 x 1 Hall's Pro Edge Surgical Black, free shipping, FWIW. The best deal I found was at a chef's knife place, Chef Knives to Go. The grain appears to be very uniform, and the stone came flat, but I haven't had a chance to use it yet. I've just recently gotten one of those stones BTW. As I recall, they have special surgical gouges and chisels for digging around in abscesses, knee and hip replacements, and other fun stuff.

I've been on an oil stone exploration lately, and the explanation I've gotten for 'surgical' on some of the oil stones is that they are used by people who process surgical equipment for dentists and orthopedic surgeons, etc. Theoretically, I don't see why someone couldn't use a scalpel blade for whittling, though they are a bit thin, and any high-carbon steel could be sharpened to progressively higher grits to a point where you could shave with them, make an incision, or carve a figurehead out of wood. I don't know what kind of steel they were, but they were perfect for cutting soft tissue. The former were for regular use, the latter were for surgeons who had special handles, as I recall. Some came with plastic handles, some came only as blades. The blades we had came in about a total of ten styles/sizes. I used to be in medical supply, and we supplied scalpels and scalpel blades to the hospital.

Surgical steel vs obsidian scalpel