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

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

Beautiful work from Joe superb.