Buddel Razor Suminagashi steel

I made a razor from this steel:

This carbon steel, supplied by the HITACHI company based in Yasugi, Japan, is made from high-quality iron sand using smelting methods similar to those used to make traditional sword steel. It has the highest purity of all the commercial steels used for forging tools and is commonly forge-welded to a wrought iron base to make high-quality tool blades and knives. Once hardened, the steel has an extremely fine-grained, martensitic structure that displays excellent sharpening properties.
Composition
"White Paper Steel" C 1.1 - 1.2%, Si 0.1 - 0.2%, P<0.025%, S< 0.004%

The handle is from polished bone with a brass wedge.

Nice!

How are you bringing out the etching on top of the blade?

Lynn

I love that! It's a good looking razor. There's nothing i don't like about it!

I putted the blade some time in Ferrum-III-Chlorid. After that I polished it again, but not to glossy.

That's a sharp looking beast! Where and when can I place an order? :)

That is not only beautiful , but very unique... My friend you are well on your way!!!

I had a Waterville once with nearly that exact same tip and notch.

It sounds like this is a commercial version of tamahagane? That's some excellent steel. I like the way the etching pulled out the grain. Pretty razor.

Great looking blade. I love the lines/design.

Jordan

I love the grain inthe steel& are the scales Bone?
Outstanding craftmanship.Paul

Very cool! That looks like an amazing razor. Nice work.

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I love the grain inthe steel& are the scales Bone?
Outstanding craftmanship.Paul

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Yes, the handle is from bone. First I wanted to take mammoth ivory, but sadly the pieces had to great cracks :cry: So I must change my plan.

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Originally Posted by Buddel

Yes, the handle is from bone. First I wanted to take mammoth ivory, but sadly the pieces had to great cracks :cry: So I must change my plan.

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I think it suits bone very well.

Nice work!

AWSOME RAZOR!!!

IMO, this is by far the best you have done with regards to blade profile.

I love it.

I want one... wow, that's nice

You imperss me more and more with each razor. Fantastic work!

Very nice! Your working with some very cool steel. I like the way your going.:tu

Beautiful... Beautiful...

Masame hada, (wood grain ) ?? Did you choose to feature it only in the top half of the blade with the Fe Cl ?
It is subtly visible throughout the blade. Would love to see it in person.

Love Japanese steel. :y

I really do not have any thing to add. I just wanted to say WOW!

Great job


Charlie

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Originally Posted by onimaru55

Beautiful... Beautiful...

Masame hada, (wood grain ) ?? Did you choose to feature it only in the top half of the blade with the Fe Cl ?
It is subtly visible throughout the blade. Would love to see it in person.

Love Japanese steel. :y

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The steel is layered from 11 layers on the left and 11 layers on the right sight wit an softer steel. In the middle is the white paper steel, that has a thickness from 1,5 mm. So the part of the edge will not have this "grain". Only on the top half, the back and shank from the razor is enough material, to show the grain, even I putted the whole razor in Fe-3-Cl.

Because of the softer back it is absolutely necessary to protect it with tape, if you hone the razor.

Great job, as always, Gábor! :y