Thread: 10/08 O1 Barber’s Notch with Spalted Maple

That is nice! Great work

Originally Posted by Bruno

I hope you mean 3/8 instead of 3/16? Because at 10/8 it needs to be 3/8

3/16 is tiny. That looks closer to 3/8 to me. Just a question why does it need to be 3/8? Stability?

By the way O.P.

Nice razor I love it.

You guys are right, the razor is 3/8" thick, not 3/16". My error.

I decided that the split pin heads really bothered me, so I removed the old pins and re-did them. The new ones came out much better (but still not perfect).

I also honed the razor and went to shave with it. I discovered that, since I stopped shaving a couple of years ago, my wife had boxed up my scuttle and all of my soaps, brushes, etc., and put them in the basement somewhere. Rather than spend the afternoon searching, I was forced to shave using (gasp!) Edge foaming shave gel. Since I was only doing my neck and the area above my beard, I figured I could get away with it. The razor worked fine, and I escaped with only one small cut on my check, caused by my being distracted when one of my daughters yelled to her sister, several rooms away.

Originally Posted by S0LITARYS0LDIER

3/16 is tiny. That looks closer to 3/8 to me. Just a question why does it need to be 3/8? Stability?

By the way O.P.

Nice razor I love it.

The honing angle. The width - thickness ratio is important because that determines the honing angle. If the angle gets too shallow, it will be a drag to hone, it will get very big bevels, and the edge will crumple quickly. The rule of thumb says that the ratio of thickness and width should be between 1/3 and 1/4