Thread: japanese style razor

like I said in introduction section, I made some razors in japanese style. it was my first go at them after few years of knife making. since they were first I didn’t want to go to complex...just original design with few changes. hope you like it.

here is short WIP (hope to make more pic of the process soon) and some finished razors.

first I forged 28mm bar of steel (1 %C, 0,1 %V) to 5x20x60mm piece

left is steel, right is iron and both have one side grind clean:


welding corners and into fire:


forge welded and forged into shape. hopefully i'll soon modified the tools on power hammer to reduce hand forging only to straightening:


it was never ending fun with straightening after quenching and tempering but that was expected. on the other hand I didn’t think there will be wrapping while grinding bevels but I had fun time then also.