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I would like to show you how I make a custom razor. It was made for a buddy in Hungary.
After the planning I cut the razor from the steel and shaping it.
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The grinding process before the heat treating.
I have a simple machine but next year I can work with a professional grinder.
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Heat treating process. I would like to say thanks to the guys in The Forge topic for their help! :)
My process:
I leaved 1.5 mm thikness of the edge.
soaking: 805C / 1480F, 8 min.
quenching oil: 55C 20 sec
tempering: after cooling to room temperature, 210C 2x1h (between cooling to room temperature)
After this I sanded a few tenths of millimeters from the edge.
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Hand grindig for the mirror polish.
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Mirror polish.
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Making the scales.
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Honing process. As a finishing step I use Japanese natural stones and Kanayama Cordovan Strop.
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The finished product.
- O1 tool steel hardened to HRC 61
- 7/8" (23mm) wide blade
- Quarter hollow grind
- Mirror polish blade including the hollow ground
- Grenadil scales and camel bone wedge
- Phosphor-Bronze pivot bearing washers
- Nickel-silver wedge/spacer pin with stainless steel washers
- Adjustable stainless steel pivot pins
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Thanks for watching.
Great job.
Tremendous pictorial, thanks for sharing.
That is amazing! Great craftmanship
A beautiful razor than anyone would be proud to own. Thanks so much for sharing the process in such detail. I really enjoyed it.
Thanks for the read along. The razor looks good and I really like finish on the scales.
Super interesting pictorial.
It's great to study different build techniques and methods.
The outcome is one heck of a razor!
Thanks for sharing.
Pete <:-}
Thank you for taking us along for the birth of a beautiful straight razor gregg. Your friend is a lucky man.
AWESOME JOB !!!
Thank you for sharing this.
:chapeau
You truly are skilled! Great job! :)
Beautiful razor! The scales are very nice. I'll bet your friend will be very happy with that one!
Thanks for sharing the process all the way through. A great looking razor.
Truly a very gorgeous razor & fantastic tutorial on making it. You do excellent work!
Thank you for sharing, it turned out beautiful:)
Thank you, very interesting to watch the process.
Great work. Thank you for taking the time to show us your process. What are the wheels the you are using for grinding?
A very nice, classy razor...thanks for showing the process pictures as well.
diameter:Quote:
Originally Posted by BeJay
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.
They look to be wood with leather bonded and then sand paper bonded?Quote:
Originally Posted by gregg71
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluesman7
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.
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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
Thank you, Christian!Quote:
Originally Posted by kaptain_zero
I think the perfect polish is very hard. I am not satisfied with my own the photos are always cheaters. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by kaptain_zero
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.
That is very nice! Thank you for all the pictures! Very nice! :D
Thanks for the pictures. Beautiful razor...
Really nice job on that one!! Good pictorial.
Wow, simply beautiful and fascinating work. Thanks so much for sharing the journey with us.
Beautiful. I loved seeing the pictures so please post more in the future. I love my vintage blades but man, one day I hope I will have enough free cash to buy something awesome like this blade.
I'm a little late to the party Gregg but you've managed to produce an excellent looking razor congratulations great step by step guide thanks.
Very nice and a great WIP thread
