Thread: My first build

Very nice! I like it a lot. What is the blade edge length? As Trimmy said a picture of the rind would be helpful. Thanks for sharing.

Very nice looking blade! Just a thought; most razors I have rescaled that had rounded shanks had a flat carefully ground on both sides at the pivot pin, allowing better use of thrust washers to stabilize the blade in it entire range of swing. Careful use of a counter bore before hardening could make a difference in future works. They are basically a larger drill ground to smooth minor diameter to assure the larger diameter flat portion is centered on the small diameter hole.
Any who! You done very well!
~Richard

Thanks you guys. Today I ground the blade down a little so it isn't as wide. All the handles I was trying to make were weird looking with how big the blade was. It is now about 3/4 inch wide. I forgot to measure how long it was. Believe it was right at 2.5" iirc. Geezer, thanks for the tip I will definitely have to look into getting some of
them.

Here's some pictures from today. The razor along with the narrower blade and the scales I'm making for it.

Heat treated the razor today. I'm kind of scared I think I got it to hot and it split right at the edge in the middle of the razor. I'm going to finish grinding the blade tomorrow and hopefully it will come out.

That looks waaaaaay too hot. Did you quench it like that?

Yes I did. I don't have a heat treat kiln or furnace so I am stuck using a torch for now. (I know I know)

Been my experience that cherry red is as hot as you want to go for heat treat. Quenching from there should make the steel as hard as it will go. Only wootz type steel I ever used was cable that I forged myself. Rest of the time I made my blades from L6 and oil quenched. Your quench medium should depend on the steel.

If the colors are close to true on your picture, it was way past cherry.

Best I recall another quick test is to heat it to where it's non-magnetic. That happens in the red zone.

I hope it didn't crack.

Originally Posted by mykylj1995

Yes I did. I don't have a heat treat kiln or furnace so I am stuck using a torch for now. (I know I know)

Well, in that case you should maintain a bigger distance from the torch, and move it around to heat more evenly. And really, raindrop pattern welded steel is way to expensive to try these sort of experiments with as a first try.