Thread: Turkish Twist Damascus razor

This razor was made from A slab of steel I cut from the block of Turkish Twist Damascus I got from my friend Ed Schempp. Ed's a senior knife design guy for Spyderco and very good at making Damascus steel. I had to forge the slab to the correct thickness and length, and then used stock removal to make this razor. I never use stock removal in normal circumstances, but in this case I had to if I wanted to keep the twist pattern the same throughout the entire razor. Forging would distort it.

After etching with ferric chloride I handsanded the blade again to 2000 grit. Originally I had planned to enhance the black and white contrast at that point, but my wife told me to leave it like this. Usually she is right when she says things like that so I did that.

The scales are hybrid stabilized burl cap and colored resin.

BEAUTY!

not for my taste. looks to me mostly as a pakistanian razor.

Nice work Bruno!
I really like the contrast on the scales.

Love it, great work. Looks like the wife was right, again

Damascus like this is made in big blocks using lots of individual twisted bars which are then further manipulated in various ways.

When the block is finished, slabs are cut off running across the grain of the pattern. No matter how it is ground, the pattern will stay the same. Many other types of damascus lose their pattern when hollow ground.

Then I,ll be buying a lot of Pakistanian razors. Tc

Originally Posted by Oustoura

not for my taste. looks to me mostly as a pakistanian razor.

If you had a Pakistani razor in one hand, and Bruno's in the other, I guarantee you would not say that.

Gorgeous work Bruno.

Nice looks to it!


Mike