Thread: Be kind ... first attempt at a blade reprofiling

I got a small lot of 4 razors to play with off eBay. For some reason the seller showed the three here, and then another photo of just the 4th. The middle one in this photo and the other one not shown looked like they may be a total loss (once I had them 'in hand' I learned I was correct) ... The bottom was missing scales and actually looked like it could be a shaver again ... and the top looked like it could be a candidate for a shorty - blade re-profiling.


So here is my first attempt at a blade re-profiling into a french tip shorty.



I took it out of the scales (and broke them be accident doing it - gotta be more careful - I may have been able to re-use). The blade was certainly sharp enough to slice me up, despite not being anywhere close enough to shave with. So I covered the blade on both sides with 1.5" masking tape. that gave me something to draw on. I drew on a profile of what I wanted the blade to look like.
Holding the blade by hand, I used a cut-off wheel on a dremel and cut - cooled - cut - cooled - cut - cooled .... never letting the blade get too hot to hold in an attempt not to ruin the hardening and tempering. Once I had the blade cut to a bevel - I used the belt sander (again a really light touch and frequent cooling) to round off the tip.

I'd like it to be 'shave-able' again at time point ... but the reason for the purchase was to experiment and play around. I'm not even sure that I didn't ruin the temper .. but I'll try to make some scales for it next and see how those turn out.