Thread: "Gold Dragon" Odin's Edge custom straight razor by Joe Edson

I've had great experiences working with Joe as well - fantastic all around.
Really like the custom file work on your new razor. Everything came together very nicely.
Enjoy!

A masterpiece!

Very nice, and from the linked pics, looks like a superb hollow grind has been put on the blade - very, very nice. Congrats!

I love it! The name is perfect for that stunning razor

Fantastic, superb, excelet work! Congratulations! And nice picture too.

A stunning razor. Kudos to Joe for a superb work of art!

Originally Posted by Phrank

Very nice, and from the linked pics, looks like a superb hollow grind has been put on the blade - very, very nice. Congrats!

Yes, a very nice extra hollow grind, Joe said it was the thinnest he has ever done, down to two thousandths of an inch at the edge, and (paraphrasing) made his butthole pucker while grinding. I compared it to some of my best Solingen razors, a Wusthoh Tridente Eleganza and a Dubl Duck Wonderedge, and Joe's grind is thinner than the Wonderedge and as thin as the Tridente.

Wow, are you sure that razor ain't reserved for royalty?

Thanks for sharing this.

This was in fact one of if not the hardest razors I've taken on. The filework wasn't terrible....once I spent a good amount of time perfecting how to make each scale on a scrap piece before attempting on the razor. The actual tail (or "Devil's tip) took most of the time as refining that to shape slowly with a file and sandpaper took longer than anticipated (likely cause I started with too much material to remove).

These full hollow grinds are also something I freely admit I'm not the most comfortable with yet. I still lose a razor here and there with trying to grind to these thinnesses for such a large portion of the hollow. The thought of turning all the filework and time spent before into the trash was always present on my mind during the final grind.

The goldplating was new to me, but there is enough info out there to get a nice setup. I already had a variable power supply for anodizing titanium and found it easy to adapt to the nickle and gold plating. What wasn't fun was masking out the portions not to be plated. I used finger nail polish and found at the solution temperatures for the plating that the polish became "gooey" and didn't function as a great mask. In the end there was a bit of clean up to get the gold lines more crisp.

All in all, was a fun project to take on that allows me to continue to push myself. That said not sure if I'd want to take on anything similar anytime soon, lol.

Outstanding craftsmanship & one amazing razor.
Thanks for the razor porn.
Cheer's Paul