Thread: Custom "style 1820" - 8/8 sc145 - Bones

Originally Posted by WW243

I beg to differ on swaging the grob, I would have humped the hyperbolic paraboloid though.
Well, bit of a necropost and a bit of fun, but what does swaging the grob mean?

Originally Posted by silverloaf

swaging is what he did on the sides of the spine, where its beveled and terminated at the tang. the grob is where the point and the spine meet, he cut it off at an angle. "swaging the grob" though? I think hes talking about beveling it? to me a swage terminates, a bevel continues through so im not seeing the swaged grob. I might just be wrong again but that's my take.

That's all correct. I was being obtuse!

Here's what I meant (though the example isn't the best, it's the only one I could find -- this razor needs cleaning, and some of the crud on it obscures what I'm talking about).

These two pictures are the same razor:





The grob is the design flourish at the point (toe) end of the spine. If you squint into a headwind you can see that it's been ground flat at the top, the front and both sides to create three facets where Ali's (incredible) razor has just one.

Hilariously, having written that a long time ago, I now disagree with myself!
(I don't think Ali's razor should have a that style grob anymore)