A little something for myself...

Decided to make myself a razor out of some new steel I was trying out.

This one is made from Hitachi White Paper steel. It is a thin piece of white paper steel with super soft steel folded over it and the white steel only extending halfway into the blade.

I actually didn't know the soft steel was folded as such, but once seeing it I decided to etch the blade and bring out the layers. The tang/spine area are all finished to a mirror finish and I left the blade at a satin finish for the etch.

The file work is something new I tried and is kind of a vine pattern. Definitely was very difficult and hard to finish sand. I like the way it came out.

After hardening, suggested tempering was 400° for a HRC of 63. I double tempered at 385° hoping to get 63-64 HRC for my hardest razor yet. I took it to the chosera 400 and then moved onto the 1K. At this point I started to get worried, as I couldn't establish a bevel as the edge kept microchipping. I was very worried at this point and thought about tempering it again at a higher temperature, but before that I pulled out some 12 um lapping film to give it a go. Needless to say, in 5 minutes I had a bevel shaving arm hair nicely with no microchips to boot. I decided to finish up honing on lapping film progressing to 0.3 um finish.

First shave WTG and it clearly was the most keen razor I ever put to my face. Ultra light pressure ala a Kamisori was needed. Definitely different than any other carbon steel I've used. The shave itself was fine, but the edge was a little too much for me, so the next day I took it to my Wakasa JNat that I normally use on kamisori's and tweaked the edge a bit. Resulting shave was as smooth as can be.

Measures about 13/16 to 7/8 wide and the scales are made from silver twill G10 with a blue/black recon stone wedge.

Looking forward to this one in the rotation. Thanks for looking!


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All I can say is WoW'''. I want one

Wow that's awesome I'm jealous

That is quite something to behold, not sure i've ever seen anything like it before, must surely applaud your craftsmanship, a rockwell hardness of 63 64, now i'm a custom knife collector as well as a straight razor user, and some of those blade steels are incredibly hard, so i fully understand how difficult that razor must have been to hone, but it will probably hold an edge 3 or 4 times longer than most razors, well done a work of Art.

Jamie.

Stunning razor! Well done, thanks for sharing.

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I love the look.
After I shave with it, I would have a nice sheath made for it and carry it as a back-up to my Glock 19.

That is sweet! The scale shape isn't quite my cup of tea but thats just me. Great job!

I love it! I'm not sure if there's many sci fy fans on here, but that looks like a Klingon weapon to me. LOL That's not an insult as I find it great!

That is the coolest blade I have ever seen!

That is pretty amazing!

Wow! Handsome razor with a touch of dark side. I like your work very much. Thanks for sharing.

Another amazing creation creation Joe, surely one of a kind :tu

Too bad expletives aren't allowed, but that is :cen -ing AWESOME!!!!!

That is a beautiful razor, the design and execution are flawless, In some ways it reminds me of Alex Jacques razors.

Charlie

That razor is freakin sweet! Excellent job.

Excellent. Love the design. Looks like an executioners axe. :chop: I like the little wedge cut-out for the point.

Wow, that's amazing. Great work.

Amazing work. Use it in good health.

It looks absolutely EVIL!!

I LOVE IT!!

VERY nicely done. Great file work and flawlessly executed grinding.

A trip "outside of the box" with a new/different steel can be interesting to say the least. Glad that one did as hoped.

Thanks for showing that beauty.

the first look was, holy crap whats that. The second look was Awsome! you did a great yob on this one

Very nicely done. The layered steel looks great. Excellent craftsmanship, and attention to detail.
Well done.

Stu

Unreal! Slow Clap!

Very nice!!! How easy is it to strop?

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Very nice!!! How easy is it to strop?

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Have to be careful of the tip as it can scratch the strop if not being careful. Otherwise it strops pretty well.

I don't understand how anyone could shave with that. I wouldn't be able to stop staring, nay -- oogling that thing long enough to do anything with it at all.

That's absolutely stunning, that is.

Holy heck, that's unique.