Thread: Birth of a new custom razor

Originally Posted by BeJay

What are the wheels the you are using for grinding?

diameter:

200mm / 8""
150mm / 6"
130mm / 5"
80mm / 3"

width: 20mm / ~0.8"

Thank you for your kind words everyone!

Wow! That is a beautiful piece of art! Congratulations and well done. If you ever decide to go into production and market them, PM me. I will take serial number one.

Originally Posted by gregg71

diameter:

200mm / 8""
150mm / 6"
130mm / 5"
80mm / 3"

width: 20mm / ~0.8"

Thank you for your kind words everyone!

They look to be wood with leather bonded and then sand paper bonded?

Originally Posted by bluesman7

They look to be wood with leather bonded and then sand paper bonded?

The wheels I made by wood and covered with leather bonded. The sand papers are endless, they are not glued to the wheels. Unfortunately, if smaller the wheels wear out faster.
If you can not exactly adhesive the sand papers then wrapped with electric tape to the wheel.

Conversely could do: for standard size sand papers create the wheels.

Very nice work, and an excellent demonstration of "Run whatcha brung" aka use what you have and make up for lack of fancy equipment with REAL skill.

I am amazed by your hand polishing... Could you elaborate on your method of achieving such a polish by hand?

Regards

Christian

Originally Posted by kaptain_zero

Very nice work, and an excellent demonstration of "Run whatcha brung" aka use what you have and make up for lack of fancy equipment with REAL skill.

Thank you, Christian!

Originally Posted by kaptain_zero

I am amazed by your hand polishing... Could you elaborate on your method of achieving such a polish by hand?

Regards

Christian

I think the perfect polish is very hard. I am not satisfied with my own the photos are always cheaters.

My method:
The hardest part is the hollow grind polish. I grind it on my machine with my finest belt sand paper: Norton Norax X16. After this I make the hand polish crosswise the original grinding. I use a cork for help and wet sandpapers (until P1000, or P2000). Then I polish it on high-speed machine with mop use several pastes. It is worth while to cool the steel, it will be a nicer finish and do not overheat the edge too.

If I remember correctly I learned this method from Mycarver. Special thanks to him!

The polishing turned out very nicely. I'm sure it is time consuming but you are right. It might take some time but cooling the blade off is a good idea to keep the temper of the blade. I tried a similar method regrinding on a blade once using rubber around a wheel & then using double sided tape to hold the sandpaper onto it & it was working great until the sandpaper came off because the motor was spinning a little too high rpm. I have an idea I will try in the future though.

Very nice work

That is extremely impressive

Handsome modern classic.