Thread: chanisaw bar razor

Very cool and very clever.

Did you temper it after you hardened? If not, it will be super hard and brittle. You can put it in your oven at around 390 F for 1/2 an hour or so, and that will bring the hardness down to the mid 50's. Heck of a lot easier to hone, and it won't shatter if you drop it.

I like it

Yes I did try to temper it in the oven like skipnord said, but again not sure if I did it right because I'm having big trouble honing it.
Like to get my hands on some pro tools and do it properly, because this way it takes me too long to make a razor from sketch, but hey it is still fun learning.

Great looking razors. Really like the looks of the first one with the home made micarta scales. Is #2 sharp? Like the stamp on #2, bird tracks?

Jeff

#2 is not shave ready sharp, still having trouble honing it, but again that is mainly because I'm not so good at it.

Yes, those are bird tracks, done with soldering iron, and the scales are finished with figerglass resin.
That was the easier way to put some logo on it, have to try and put it on the tang as Wintchase mentioned.

I'm realy glad you fokes like my stuff, so here is one more, this time a knife.
Cut from the same chanisow bar.
I know that the blade coud be better, but it's preaty funcional as kamp knife and sharp enough for that purpose.
That shiny par of the handle is polished aluminium if anyone wondered.
Swear this one is the last to show, others are not so good looking.

All very nice. Some fine work there

we learn by doing looks good to me

Awesome work. Well done on all three blades.

Nice razors you made there mate. Knife is nice too, but you need to tighten your tolerances up a bit. You have a bit of the tang sitting proud of the aluminium bolster, a gap between the scale material and bolster, and those scratches on the blade need to go. More sanding working through the grits with a 45 degree change in direction when moving to the next grit higher, removing ALL the marks from the previous sanding before moving to the next grit.
How have you got the wood scales fixed? I assume you used the hidden pin method, Yes? Or have you just got them glued in with epoxy resin? I mean all this to be constructive and should no way be construed as criticism in a bad or derogatory way.


Mick