Thread: My Homemade Shiznit

Since I'm going nuts with my new camera, I thought I'd do a little photo spread of my homemade shiznit. I'm a guy with average skills and only hand tools. If I can do it, you can, too. None of this stuff is great, but it all works.

First up is my $5 strop, made from a scrap piece of Latigo & some scrap stainless rod. Stitched with a hand stitching awl. (You're looking at the back, so you can see the fold & the stitching). I used a bending device in the machine shop at work. One D-ring came out much bigger than the other, so I used that one for the bottom since that's the one you have to fit your fingers in:

Next is this brush stand. My GF bought me this sweet little badger brush, but it didn't fit in my stand. So I made this out of some scrap pin brass, soldered with regular soft solder:

As I mentioned in another thread, I've been experimenting with slate hones. Much too coarse for razors, but great for knives. This huge slab is serial #0001 It's sitting on my GF's kitchen counter next to her cutlery:

PCR fans will love this Coochie razor, cut down & rehandled by yours truly, next to a Famous Double Arrow for size comparison (also rehandled by yours truly):

too bad on the coochie razor you couldn't get rid of the W and stamp an H.

Red

All very nice! The strop's particularly good. I like examples of ingenuity keeping the costs down!

Great stuff !!. Like the slate hone

How did you cut it down? I broke the tip off my first razor and have it honed down at a 45* angle and it provides a nice little upper lip /fine work trimming edge but I'm tempted to build a smaller razor either from that or some other eboy speshul to make XTG ear to adams apple parallel to the jaw line passes easier.....

Items do look purty BTW