Thread: My homemade smilers

Originally Posted by Bruno

Whenever I am unsure about how to shape something, I kind of just let it happen as I go along. Some of my best designs have come out as the result of letting things happen.

Bruno, you have succinctly stated the core creative process that guides ALL creative efforts. I usually refer to it as the 'mistake factor'. As a visual artist I start with an assumption that what I have designed is the finished product, but find as I work toward that end the subconscious takes over and creates 'mistakes' that start the refining process toward the true finish. You can't quantify this, you can only ignore it because you can not say, "I'm going to deliberately make a mistake to improve my work". That leads to mud.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Whenever I am unsure about how to shape something, I kind of just let it happen as I go along. Some of my best designs have come out as the result of letting things happen.

Right! That's one of the things I'm really liking about the forging process, sometimes the metal doesn't go exactly where you thought it was going to go. The razor kind of tells you what it wants to look like.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

Bruno, you have succinctly stated the core creative process that guides ALL creative efforts. I usually refer to it as the 'mistake factor'. As a visual artist I start with an assumption that what I have designed is the finished product, but find as I work toward that end the subconscious takes over and creates 'mistakes' that start the refining process toward the true finish. You can't quantify this, you can only ignore it because you can not say, "I'm going to deliberately make a mistake to improve my work". That leads to mud.

Interesting thing happened yesterday. I had decided to move the contact point of the spine a little closer to the top of the razor on this one compared to my past two razors. A misread measurement from a cheap vernier caliper and my desire to push the bevel angle a bit, means that it will end up a bit closer to the top than my original plan. The subconscious has spoken.

Originally Posted by bluesman7

Thanks yardie. No problem on the taste thing, if we all liked the same things, everyone would be after my wife!

I'm totally using that wife line!

Originally Posted by bluesman7

Interesting thing happened yesterday. I had decided to move the contact point of the spine a little closer to the top of the razor on this one compared to my past two razors. A misread measurement from a cheap vernier caliper and my desire to push the bevel angle a bit, means that it will end up a bit closer to the top than my original plan. The subconscious has spoken.

If the stars in the heavens are all aligned correctly and you held your tongue 'just so' then the sub conscious has done it's job and led you to the correct conclusion/decision.

Originally Posted by JoelLewicki

I'm totally using that wife line!

Have at it. I stole it too! The way I heard it some ones grand father would say to him "If we all liked the same things, everyone would be after your grandma"

Ready for heat treating.

Very nice work ! And, if you put your wife up on the classifieds let me know :<0)

Shave of the day!