Thread: Triton razor in Maple

Greetings everyone,

I'm just finishing up a razor for my Barber, Lou. He mentioned that he would like to have a smallish straight razor for shaving around customers' ears. Since Lou keeps giving me old razors, and refuses to let me pay for them, I decided to put one together for him.

I picked up this Triton razor on eBay a while back. It was a bit stained and had a broken scale when I got it. The width measures out at a bit under a 5/8.

I took the razor apart and cleaned up the blade. Unfortunately, I bumped the blade with the spindle on my Dremel tool at one point and snapped off the front corner of the edge. I was not happy, so I put the blade aside until I could decide what to do with it. I don't seem to have a photo of the chip, so I put a red line on the blade about where the piece broke off.

Since Lou was looking for a small razor, I thought the Triton would be a good one for him. Shortening the blade to remove the chipped corner made the edge about 2.5" long. Since Lou is a Barber, I added a bit of a Barber's notch.

The handle is just some Maple that I had laying around. Some of the guys on the Knife Forums swear by Fiebing's leather stains for bringing out the grain in Maple. I decided to give it a shot. It came out okay, but perhaps my Maple did not have enough of a grain in the first place. I finished it off with gun stock oil and wax. It's finished except for honing.

That's a great gift on your part.
And I think the razor looks much better shorter and with a barber's notch, so the chip wasn't much of a loss, I guess.

Nice job. I think Lou will be over the moon.