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Buddel silversteel with mammoth ivory
This is a very special razor for me. Itīs the first custom order, that explicit was ordere as an full hollow ground razor. So I tried to make this as an freehand grinding at my beltsander. It is not so perfect like a wacker or TI, but Iīm quite proud on my work. Perhaps in the future I can do the hollow ground even better.
The other problem was, my hardening oven was misaligned at the first hardening, so that I dont reached the hardening temperatur. I not noticed this first, and grounded the blade ready. After that I noticed, that the razor not hold an edge. After sharpening the first strokes with the shave was ok and then it lost itīs sharpness. So I went in the heat treatment shop and they tested the hardness for me - nothing http://www.shaveready.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
So I decided to harden the blade a second time. The problem was, that the blade was already to thin for that process. The chance, that the blade will warped was really high. But I had a lot of luck and the blade was still straight after the hardening.
The handle is from full mammoth ivory with an wedge from translucent horn. Blade size is 7/8.