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  1. 07-08-2012, 07:19 PM #31
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    Marvelous...
    I very much appreciate the comments about hardness, brittleness and the
    raspy edge. I would wager that this razor loves a CrOx pasted strop and will
    get smoother and smoother for weeks after honing.

    The scales look fine... If you had not commented on cracking them a bit
    I would never know.
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    Did you temper this back at all, or just leave it file hardness? If you just left it file hardness, it's no wonder it didn't like the DMT.

    It looks awesome! I really like the look of it, very very vintage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by medicevans View Post
    Did you temper this back at all, or just leave it file hardness? If you just left it file hardness, it's no wonder it didn't like the DMT.

    It looks awesome! I really like the look of it, very very vintage.
    Are not most files around 62 HRC?
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  7. 07-08-2012, 11:50 PM #34
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    Quote Originally Posted by pixelfixed View Post
    Are not most files around 62 HRC?
    I assume so. This was a very old file, American Made.
    As my Grandfather always said: "Hard as a 4 bit file!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    I assume so. This was a very old file, American Made.
    As my Grandfather always said: "Hard as a 4 bit file!"
    Reminds me of my first wife
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tarkus View Post
    Its great up until you get near your finished edge and your sweating bullets because surface grinders run way too fast. so you have to use the softest wheels you can find and you can only take .001"-.0015" at a time or else you burn it up. Must of dressed that wheel 40 times as well.
    Oh and flood the living daylights out of it with coolent.
    Right, that makes sense. I admit I had been thinking mostly of the pre-heat treat grinding, which you could just go to town on without fear of ruining the hardness. But I think this razor is all the more mind boggling because you shaped the whole thing from already hard stock!!

    It would be a lot less work to start from annealed bar stock (maybe another razor...?), but its cool that you ground it straight from an old file. Makes you feel like it has a deeper heritage than a chunk of new steel from a mill.
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    Absolutely beautiful work. I love the design and very well executed.
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    Truly an inspiration! Anyone would be proud to have that one in their shave den. Well done
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    Sensational looking razor. Very nice. Well done Darl.

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