Thread: These are the first razors I have made?

Wow, beautiful! Love the patterns on the steel.

Your scales are too wide, and the spines look to be too narrow for proper honing of blades that large.
The workmanship looks nice.

I'm in agreement with HNSB.

A razor the size of those with mokume scales would be visually stunning. Probably be rather heavy as well.

Your craftsmanship is top notch from what I can see.

Great job for the beginning. I'm sure it will only get better.

SALUD!
Willie

Your craftsmanship fit and finish all look great. The dimensions and proportions seem a little off. I think the scales need to be scaled down and thinned out. The total angle of the blade needs to be somewhere around 16 degrees.

Do you use a straight razor? If not, I would get one and study it.

You are off to a good start. If I were in your shoes, I would make some razors and shave with them for awhile to see what works and what does not. Use your own razors then use some factory made razors see how they compare.

Charlie

Originally Posted by spazola

Your craftsmanship fit and finish all look great. The dimensions and proportions seem a little off. I think the scales need to be scaled down and thinned out. The total angle of the blade needs to be somewhere around 16 degrees.

Do you use a straight razor? If not, I would get one and study it.

You are off to a good start. If I were in your shoes, I would make some razors and shave with them for awhile to see what works and what does not. Use your own razors then use some factory made razors see how they compare.

Charlie

Hi Charlie

Thanks for the comments.

Re the angle is that 16degrees total or 16 per side 32 in total? These blades are about 8 degrees total??? I will definitely look into the proportions HNSB also commented on this. You guys are the experts so I will try find out more about how these blades are all supposed to mach up. Any suggestions as to web sites where I could get this info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the comments

Chris.

Great first shot!!! They look wonderful.

WOW the craftsmanship on those blades are just awesome

Originally Posted by HNSB

Your scales are too wide, and the spines look to be too narrow for proper honing of blades that large.
The workmanship looks nice.

HNSB

Thanks for the advice. How does the width of the scale affect the use? I would have thought that the wider the more comfortable in the hand? Perhaps I should try shaving with one??

Re the spines they are 4mm wide and were a bugger to get an edge on? That makes sense. Thanks for your input.

Chris

Very nice pair of razors, being a big fan and collector of custom knives, i would love to see a few more well known knife makers producing razors to be honest, especially given the steels and materials we have today, one question for you before i go, you obviously tempered and hardened the steel before you ground the edge i'm thinking because of the fragile nature and how thin the razors edge his?

Jamie.

Originally Posted by HNSB

Your scales are too wide, and the spines look to be too narrow for proper honing of blades that large.
The workmanship looks nice.

They look fantastic, but may lack in the function department. The correct blade geometry will be necessary to hone a strong edge. Other than that beautiful pieces. The only other thing that stood out were you pins. If you could get those smoother, that would really look nice.

I will be keeping an eye out for your next piece.