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    Talking Three custom razors: part 1

    Heya fellas, hope everyone had a fun new years!
    I guess you could say that today has been a day of firsts for me, today I did my first attempt grinding, then my first attempt at hollow grinding, then my first filework.

    Here are three razors (still works in progress) that I've got as a result of my day of playing in the shop. I know these probably look like they were ground with all of the skill of the famous pakistani razor-butchers that make those z**pk catastrophes, but what the heck... gotta start somewhere.

    Comments and especially tips will be very well received.. All of these are around 1/4 grind, and all only have rough grinding done... heat treating will come next, then final grinding and finishing.

    The first razor is a 13/16 I've kind of designed around some of my favorite stuff that other custom builders at SRP have done... hope it seems as an homage, not a rip off to anyone that has made one similar to this. I call the point a spike with a "shadow notch" (just a shadow of a notch.. get it). I added a vine file-work pattern to the spine. (I will add a macro pic so you can see the file-work better soon).
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    This next razor has a reverse tanto point, should be really wicked in the hand if it turns out! This one is also 13/16ths
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    This last razor is a smaller plain old spike point (5/8). Since this picture I added a few accents of file-work (i'll add a pic to let you see it soon).
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    So, I hope you enjoyed this humble attempt... I am a rookie at all of this, so any helpful hints or suggestions would be great. Have a nice day guys!

    Dave

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    Looks like your having fun.
    Good luck with the heat treat
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    'How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?'

    I like the shape they are starting to take - very aggressive looking!

    Edit: is it my eyes/the lighting, or have you set the initial bevel on the second one?

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    Quote Originally Posted by FiveOhNine View Post
    'How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?'

    I like the shape they are starting to take - very aggressive looking!

    Edit: is it my eyes/the lighting, or have you set the initial bevel on the second one?
    that one is the lighting... don't know what combination of cell phone camera and weird lighting resulted in that effect... I could have used another pic, but I wanted people to be able to see the other things in order to give me tips or suggestions and this one was the best for that I think.

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    Nicely done! I especially like the first one. Did you grind them down from bar stock or forge them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quick Orange View Post
    Nicely done! I especially like the first one. Did you grind them down from bar stock or forge them?
    You don't want to know. Believe me. You will hate and envy him FOREVER.

    These look GREAT to me, Dave! I really like the shapes!

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    I'm liking those profiles! Looking forward to see what scales you mate them to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BKratchmer View Post
    You don't want to know. Believe me. You will hate and envy him FOREVER.

    These look GREAT to me, Dave! I really like the shapes!
    Yeah, I just found the thread

    It really makes me wish I'd found this hobby while I was in highschool. I didn't realize the kind of tooling I had available in my own garage until I left. Oh well...

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    Yeah, I'm a lucky guy with some tools I have access to, I cut the blanks with a waterjet cutter from 1080 barstock, the grinding was done by hand on a belt grinder with a 3.5 inch contact wheel.

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    Nice Work! Look forward to pics of next steps!

    Ronnie

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