Thread: My homemade smilers

Originally Posted by UKRob

I'd like to see the end profile - how did you grind these two as they look like faux framebacks?

I can get a blade profile up later today

Great grind and design, right up my alley!

I really like your styling, those are some handsome blades.

Charlie

Originally Posted by UKRob

I'd like to see the end profile - how did you grind these two as they look like faux framebacks?

As to how, you can google "My homemade 8/8 smiley" on that other razor site and read the whole process.

Thank you to all, for those great compliments.

If you'd like to know what I think of them you can Google my reaction somewhere on the Internet.

Honewear is going to get worse as time goes by. Therefore you should start out with as little honewear as possible, both on the spine and near the edge. In order to achieve that, you need to hollow out more. Ideally, the line on the spine should be just a thin line, and the bevels should be so narrow that you almost can see it. that way your razor will be easy to hone, and will keep looking good even after many honing sessions.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Honewear is going to get worse as time goes by. Therefore you should start out with as little honewear as possible, both on the spine and near the edge. In order to achieve that, you need to hollow out more. Ideally, the line on the spine should be just a thin line, and the bevels should be so narrow that you almost can see it. that way your razor will be easy to hone, and will keep looking good even after many honing sessions.

The green Kirinite scaled razor has been reground since that picture was taken in order to narrow the bevel. That was my first homemade razor. You can see that my second razor "Chess" started life with a much narrower bevel.

I reckon the chess one has the moves

They came out awesomely.