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08-24-2008, 08:49 PM #1
When a razor is no longer a razor
It's a knife!
razors that are beyond restoration or are not of much value in my eyes I sometimes turn into friction folding knives. Here is a bowdins wedge I turned into a drop point. I rehandled it in hand jigged and dyed bone with a bone butt spacer. 3 pin design makes it easier to use as a knife. after blade reshaping it is then reground by whichever means suits it best, if it's a thick old wade I can usually flat grind it or if it's a thin little bowdin wedge I re-hollow grind it. Hollow ground ones with no false edge like this one can be honed just like a razor if desired. I make them so they take a bit of effort to close so they won't accidentally come open in your pocket, though a snug fitting leather sleeve or neck sheath is reccomended for good measure.
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08-24-2008, 08:56 PM #2
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Thanked: 1587What a cool idea!!
How does it go fully open? Could you rig a little spring loaded clip (with a button release or something - hidden as the third pin?) inside the scales so that the tang clips into it when straight out? I know nothing about knives, so please feel free to laugh if that is a ridiculous suggestion.
But that looks great and is a marvellous idea. Thanks for that.
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08-24-2008, 09:01 PM #3
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Thanked: 3795Nice! Personal hygiene and self-defense in one handy tool!
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08-24-2008, 09:20 PM #4
I wonder what you meant- making knives from razors.... that is damn cool.
do they tend to chip any? Nice jig btw
ok, how much?
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08-24-2008, 09:27 PM #5
thanks guys.
Jimbo, never thought of that, I might try developing something like that one day.
They don't chip if you don't do anything silly with them like bind them or pry with them.
From $75-$125 depending on the handle material and all that stuff.
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08-25-2008, 12:14 AM #6
Nice job!!!
I like it a lot.
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08-25-2008, 07:25 AM #7
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Thanked: 416beautiful work!!!!!!
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08-27-2008, 03:31 PM #8
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Thanked: 735I like the third pin that acts as a saftey to keep the razor from going too far open when used as a knife. Nice work, good idea!
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08-27-2008, 05:36 PM #9
really nice job well done
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08-29-2008, 09:59 PM #10