Thread: Competition razor - Wrought Iron and Olive

So, it's been 5 years since my last entry. I recently remembered SRP and want to share this razor that I made a year ago.

The idea was that I should make everything within a weekend; drawing it, picking material, forging, grinding and mounting the scales. I had somebody else to hone it.
Usually, I can work on a knife for ages, so this time I had to ignore the small details that I was not happy with. I am not overly satisfied with the design and the pins and washers were giving me some trouble.

But I managed to finish everything within the time limit, friday afternoon to sunday night.

Materials: The blade is a sandwich with O1 edge and wrought iron on the sides. Olive wood for the scales and domed bronze pins. Ground on a

It has taken some use and still cuts well. My girlfriend borrows it to shave her legs... but she didn't understand that she had to dry it afterwards. Oh, I was angry. And I dont have acces to a workshop at the moment, so I can't clean it up. But now, I do kind of like the patina. The first picture is before use, the pin and seen from the end is after a year of use.
Sorry for the quality of the pictures

I am happy to be able to share this with you

Comments are most welcome

- Kristian

what was the reason for the short time frame? some sort of competition? i really like the over all design and the olive wood scales, i think it turned out well. Nice job!!

I wanted to push myself this time. That was the main reason.

And thank you

I really like this .
Nicely done.
Cheers Paul

Great looking razor, very well done

Looks very nicely ground quarter hollow only one minor critcism the wooden scales are a little to thick.

Rimeligt sejt Kristian. Godt gået

Great work, I hope you are proud.

not shabby, not shabby at all . Great work!

Very nice, liking the wrought iron sandwich.