Thread: Pendray wootz blades for Mike and me

I am making a pendray wootz razor for @Mike Blue . And another for myself. I started with the rightmost blank in the picture. It weighed 260 grams. I started out with 5 pieces. 2 got made into razors, and an offcut got made into a cutting edge for a razor. That left me with 3. Then Mike sold me the last 2 pieces he had, bringing me back to 5. And now one of these is going to become a razor for Mike and for me, thanks to so careful precision forging.



First i drew it out until it was 5/8 by 1/4 and 10" long. I did that by hand because wootz and presses are not best friends. At least not for small cross sections. Then i cut it in 2 identical pieces.



And then i carefully forged those pieces into near identical razors. One weighs 114 grams, the other 118. There is very little spare material in these blanks. Normally I am slightly more wasteful but i really wanted to get 2 full razors out of that piece of steel. Pretty happy so far.