Thread: Worked back Wapi

Originally Posted by jockeys

damn, that's pretty good looking, i'm going to try that on old double arrow i have sitting around that i never did anything with.

Have at it!

It's fun to do, and if there's no love lost between you and the razor to begin with, all the better!

I always had a strong disdain for the Wapi, as the quality was poor, and the razor lacked "character".



After screwing around with it. I have now imbued some character to it. So that's a step in the right direction. Working on stuff yourself is always enjoyable.

If it fails the shave test, then back in the dungeon drawer it shall go! But I think perhaps it will evade that fate...

Originally Posted by Seraphim

Have at it!

It's fun to do, and if there's no love lost between you and the razor to begin with, all the better!

I always had a strong disdain for the Wapi, as the quality was poor, and the razor lacked "character".



After screwing around with it. I have now imbued some character to it. So that's a step in the right direction. Working on stuff yourself is always enjoyable.

If it fails the shave test, then back in the dungeon drawer it shall go! But I think perhaps it will evade that fate...

you just used a normal cutoff wheel on the dremel? did you run it at high or low speed? did you have to watercool to prevent de-tempering the blade?

I used the cutoff wheel to make divits for where I would then use a small dremel grinding wheel, to keep it from "walking".

I didn't need to water cool anything, as the razor kept remarkable cool troughout the entire process (as far as I could tell!), It seems like, for some reason using the cutting wheel, and the grinder wheel produced less heat than using the felt wheel for buffing, which is notorious for destroying blade temper.

I used the buffer for a little bit on the tang, and it got quite warm, quite fast. making the worked back notches, it didn't warm up noticably at all.

awesome, sounds good. I have a bunch of different shaped grinding wheels for gunsmithing, I'm going to see what I can do to that double arrow tonight if I get time. I'm also going to experiment with adding jimps to the tang, I like a good, grippy tang and the smooth tang on the double arrows has long been a bone of contention for me, maybe I can fix it this way.

Originally Posted by jockeys

you just used a normal cutoff wheel on the dremel? did you run it at high or low speed? did you have to watercool to prevent de-tempering the blade?

When I did something like this, I used 12000 RPM. No additional cooling was needed, but you work in intervals. Grind for 5 - 10 seconds, then allow the heat to spread and dissipate. As long as the metal doesn't get so hot that it burns you, it doesn't hurt the temper.

Low speed is lower temp, but it takes longer so more local heat buildup.
High speed is low heat buildup, but higher local temp.

12000 RPM is somewhere in between I guess. I've done this a couple of times, incl point reshaping, and I haven't destroyed a blade yet.

Originally Posted by jockeys

awesome, sounds good. I have a bunch of different shaped grinding wheels for gunsmithing, I'm going to see what I can do to that double arrow tonight if I get time. I'm also going to experiment with adding jimps to the tang, I like a good, grippy tang and the smooth tang on the double arrows has long been a bone of contention for me, maybe I can fix it this way.

I think a whole new era of semi-custom crappy razors is about to dawn.....

That's to say that we shall take crappy razors and turn them into semi-customs....

But perhaps even after all is said and done, we will indeed still be left with customized crappy razors...

But at least it's something fun to do!

Gentlemen....start your dremels!