Hey guys...I see a lot of smithing knowledge here and I have next to none, so please pardon me if this post is hopelessly, ineptly noobish.

The short of it is, I've been keeping all my old DE blades (I use a SR for my face and a DE on my head unless I have hours of careful shaving to kill) and plan to recycle them one day when the container (a small margarine tub) is full. However, the other day I had a thought...

What if I could recycle them...myself? There's several how-to's here on this forum for building your own forge and I'm sure I could find an anvil somewhere (space for the forge is, of course, a pipe dream as I live in a high-rise apartment ). Well, maybe not, but this post is about feasibility of the project in general, not to my current circumstances.

What I was thinking is that I could take all those old DE blades and fire them up and hammer them layer-by-layer into a single piece and then make a straight razor out of them. What do you guys think? Is that even possible? What sort of steel quality goes into those things? To make answering this easier, let's assume hand hammering and a homemade gas forge like the can-of-beans one I saw here...