Thread: Warranted Cast Steel in forest green G10

Hot off the hones, my newest toy.
There's a lot of steel in this one, heavy chopper. I tried to be meticulous about dust and lint, but I can see some still has snuck on there while I wasn't looking. Blade is much cleaner than the first pic looks, not really sure how the pic came to look like that but I think it is dust off my rag. There's more than enough steel in this baby that I could have gone for spotless but I wanted to leave some of it's history. There is some very minor pitting towards the spine on both side. No watermarks. It was sanded to 1200 then left like that, no autosol or any other buffing.
Stacked washers in the pivot, dual pins in wedge end. Wedge is black G10 with brass liners. Presently just a hair under 6/8.
I'll be using this for my SOTD today, looking forward to testing it.

Cast steel was simply the name for the English crucible steel process, which added carbon to wrought iron and poured it out as a liquid, rather than removed carbon from pig-iron as in the Bessemer process. It went on being used for quite some time, and indeed still is for tool steels, but it was a common term used on miscellaneous tools well into the twentieth century. We don't so often see it on razors, though.

It doesn't mean that your razor was cast, though. It would almost certainly be forged or cut from bars which had been rolled after bein poured. Another innovation was fluid pressing, which meant squashing near-liquid steel bars under the pressure of a hydraulic press, to eliminate seams, bubbles etc. The hydraulics, not the softness, is where the word fluid came in.

You don't mention a maker's name on the other side of the tang. If there isn't one, it was probably a very basic razor, sold through numerous distribution houses. But I don't think the bottom of the Sheffield market was bad. It looks like a true, flat-sided wedge, which is unusual. That would increase the work if much honing were ever required. But there is no reason why it shouldn't shave well.

Wowww, Not bad Sten . I like what you did with her. That's one heck of a wedge. Congrats

Oho! Methinks I spy a Greaves Sheafworks Blade from the 1840's which has never been ground on! A true wedge! Greaves'es have souls, you know! The steel in them has life eternal! You have an awesome blade which you have dressed properly! Enjoy it, for it shall outlive you as well! Nice Job!

Now that is one fine looking wedge!! Masterfully done!!

Thank you all for the kind words, I have decided I love this blade. Big and strong, with an authoritative heft and quite an attitude, you can almost hear it's long history just by holding it.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

A true wedge!

Actually, it isn't a true wedge, it's just very very close.

Nicely Done !!!

I am becoming more and more fond of Greens on razors, they add a touch of class at least to my eyes

The double wedge pins and the Leaf point on the wedge end shows off the skill involved with this one, that is not easy to get right

Originally Posted by str8fencer

Actually, it isn't a true wedge, it's just very very close.

It's as true a wedge as I have seen. I have not ever seen one which the entire blade rests on the hone, But some say they are real. It definitely is not hollow ground, tho!

Nicely done Sten.
Looks good for another 100 years now!

Thats some fine lookin work you did there. Very nice.