Thread: If you were going to make a production razor...

That is also pretty annoying steel to grind and polish post HT. As in, I hate it with a vengeance. Its only redeeming quality is that it is absolutely impossible to stain with food even when left dirty overnight. It is also pretty expensive and with the extra time required to grind and polish, you'd be hard pressed to keep that price point.

Are you talking about AEB-L? For the kind of razor that we are talking about, I can get a 26mm x 155mm x 5mm piece for $2.50 retail. That's is about the same price as I would pay for .187 thick O-1. If you were doing this in a semi-production setting, you would probably buy it in 600mm x 900mm sheets. As for difficulty polishing, in my limited experience, it is no worse than many simple steels at 62 Rc or so.

Originally Posted by Bruno

That is also pretty annoying steel to grind and polish post HT. As in, I hate it with a vengeance. Its only redeeming quality is that it is absolutely impossible to stain with food even when left dirty overnight. It is also pretty expensive and with the extra time required to grind and polish, you'd be hard pressed to keep that price point.