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After a long time I found the time to finish some straight razors again. This one is the first from my new shop. The blade is from C145 Super Clean - a high carbon steel with a very fine grain. 1/4 hollow ground, long tail with a handle from Steller's sea cow rib ( Steller's sea cow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ). The spacer ist from mammoth ivory.
Just amazing use of materials, a classic inspired design, and I especially like the transition from shank to tail.....Wow!
Very Nice.I work with seacow bone quite a bit,very nice material.
How thick are the scales?
Thank you. The scales are approx. 4 mm thick.
Your excellent work as always. Seems the new shop is working out nicely for you. : )
Fun stuff to work with,getting hard to find and real spendy:(
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top job bud, liking the curves.
glad you found the itme to do the work on you razors,.. I always admire our work :)!
I've told myself that I'm thru buying custom razors time and time again.
Then something like this pops up and it is very evident that I am in fact not.
Not at all.
Your scale design, choice of materials and craftmanship is both unique and of the highest quality out there.
Beautiful work, Mr. Buddel. I have some Mammoth ivory that is just about long enough for scales. I am waiting until I have a little bit more experience making razors before I cut into it. Thanks for the inspiration!
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All the best for this project. Its always a littel special, if you work with material, that cost you a lot of money, if you ruin it ;) Hope you will not get problems with some cracks in the tooth. Seems like it have a very nice color.
Another client of Achim :)
I've found SC145 to be very hard after heat treatment. Do you happen to have HRC numbers this razor?
:brunoisright Yes, Achim have a lot of very fine steels. Sorry, I dont have a HRC tester. I´m sure the hardness is over 62 HRC but I dont know it exactly.
No worries. I was just curious. I agree with you. My O2 razors are around 61HRC which I think is the ideal hardness for a razor. I forged 2 razors from SC145 so far, and it is much, much harder than my standard O2 razors.
Very nice!
Mike
Now I know before I ask this question that it will make people laugh, but it is a serious one. I've seen mammoth ivory mentioned here on several threads, is it really from mammoths? If so where do you obtain it from?
Love that blade!
Amazing razor, very nice work indeed. My question is this, I keep seeing Mammoth ivory scales and wedges here and there, where do you all get it from? I keeps searching for it with no luck.
Check here:Boone Trading Company - Ivory and ScrimshawQuote:
Originally Posted by bullriderinwranglers
