Quote Originally Posted by spazola View Post
All of this talk of steels and grinders has been fueling my desire to make a razor. I have been toying with the idea for quite awhile. I think I will order some 1095 and try a stock removal type blade. My problem is, what to use for a heat source to harden the blade. I was thinking of the one brick forge that is in W. Goddard’s book or some variation of a bean can forge. I do not want the best, but I would like something that will last for a few blades. I am looking for ideas.

If I get the razor making AD in the future I can upgrade. Right now I am just looking for an inexpensive way to make do.

Thanks

Charlie
Good luck, Charlie. The $50 Knife Shop is a great book. I picked myself up a copy just recently. Think of how many thousands of hobby knife makers there are in the U.S. alone. Razor making may just be the next outgrowth of that. I too have my "wheels turning". I live in an area of the U.S. that's known for quarrying granite. In that same book you mention, Goddard talks about a granite anvil rather than a steel anvil and said he really liked using one (no noise, solid as, well, a rock). I'd buy a granite hunk for sure to use as a forge if I get bitten by the bug.

I'm sure a few of the few that are making customs will chime in.

Chris L