Thread: My first two blade regrinds, a Spanish to Spike and Round to Spanish

I have two razors with broken toes. A Henckels Spanish point 7/8 that the buffer caught while I was putting a final shine on the scales and pins. It got ripped out of my hands and thrown into the garage floor breaking the swell off the bottom of the Spanish point. The other is a Dorko with a fancy spine in round point 7/8 that had a hairline crack in the toe of the blade. Both razors are/were new stock.

So I set up my knife cutting outfit and went at the Henckels to start with. I taped the blade where I was going to cut and marked the cut line using a carpenters square to make sure the cut line was square to the spine. Once marked I turned on the water (constant cold water trickle to provide lubrication and heat control) and gently started cutting the blade with a diamond cutting wheel. I have said it before and will say it again; these blades are made from some hard steel. It took me nearly an hour to cut the new blade tip and grind/sand/shape it.

you have to go slow and pay particular attention to heat management. The blade never got warm during the entire process. I cut the new spike tip with the diamond wheel, then a ceramic grinding stone to even out and square the tip. You also have to roll the edges and bevel the corners to keep everything smooth. After that it is sandpaper working up to 800 grit, then the buffing wheel. I am quite happy with the way it turned out. If you did not know it use to be a Spanish point, you would think it was factory.

Tomorrow it goes into a set of oil finished olive scales. It should be a heck of a looker.