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    Default New design Fixed handle razor

    This is a new fixed handle razor. The request was for a modern design, but with attitude. The steel is SC145. Very pure carbon steel with 1.45% carbon. It was differentially hardened, but with the satin finish, this has become invisible. I could bring it out again with etching, but that would mean losing the satin finish. I apologise for the crummy pics. Because it is satin finish, I drenched it in oil and that has attracted dust.

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    As always Bruno, it's fantastic. Tc. Send it.
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    Very cool design, and I've always liked satin finishes.
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    Hows it strop and handle on a shave? Every time I have tried something on the wild side like that I can't pull one or the other together: the strop or the shave ergonomics. Your final grinds are very nice my friend, very nice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shooter74743 View Post
    Hows it strop and handle on a shave? Every time I have tried something on the wild side like that I can't pull one or the other together: the strop or the shave ergonomics. Your final grinds are very nice my friend, very nice.
    It strops surprisingly well. You strop with your thumbpad in the thumb notch, and the index finger above my mark. The spine runs directly in the middle, meaning it is extremely easy to flip the razor without finger adjustment.

    It handles very well during the shave, which was as expected. Those notches, ridges and bumps don't get thrown on the design on a hunch. Every razor I make is designed with finger placement in mind, and during the grinding phase I fine tune as necessary, always holding the razor in my bare hands before and after removing metal, to make sure that the razors fits the hand without needing to strain or putting fingers in awkward positions.

    The index finger is on the spine side of that ridge behind the shoulder. the middle and ring finger are on the jimped area, and the pinky is in the last cut-out. The thumbpad can then comfortably rest in the ridged thumbnotch.

    Btw, the water quenched SC145 was a bear to hone. I am really glad that I can grind to such narrow bevels these days, because even with very tiny bevels, this steel just doesn't seem to want to let go.
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