I would like to build a straight razor myself and post the progress here. The point of posting my progress is two-fold. First, is that it may help others who are trying to do the same thing. Second, is that the other members here may see me making a mistake and point me in the right direction before I go too far down the rabbit hole (been there, done that, bad idea, etc...).


I have made many hundreds of knives in the past but this is my first attempt at a straight razor and I realize that a much of what I know will have to be un-learned. Razors look to have a lot of differences between them and hunting/kitchen knives. Grind geometry, edge angle, desirable steel qualities all look to be different than what I am used to.


Please let me know if this is the correct place for such a thread and I will proceed accordingly.


Thanks!