Thread: Design you own razor blank and build your own.

Originally Posted by Maximilian

You're kidding right? Who wants to pass on any form of razor porn!

Without pictures, it didn't happen.

Ok you junkies (myself included)
I'll get some shots up later on when the nipper is in his bed.
Did the pre ht blade thinning this afternoon, good bit of progress.
Gotta say a big thanks to Dave, the profiling has saved a ton of time.

Originally Posted by shooter74743

What's missing?

Here's a blade that I made from one Dave's blanks...
http://straightrazorpalace.com/forge...ake-razor.html

Sorry about that for some reason these posts are dated as 1 year and 1 month old. (at least on my end). it looked like the thread had just ended abruptly. you guys are doing beautiful work I only wish I had found this early enough to get in on the fun.

I've done it now.
Once you put these on the site I think there is a high expectation to succeed ultimatley.
A bit more refinement and a buff required before ht.
Oh just remebered I don't have a buffer, guess I'll have to do that bit by hand.

That spine work is gorgeous! How did you end up doing your hollow work?

Looks fantastic Deckard.
I have one blank hollowed out and ready for HT and another that I'm working on right now. My stuff got put on hold for a while do to moves and life, but I suspect I might be able to show off something a bit more simple than either of you pulled off in the near future.

Originally Posted by bishpick1

......I only wish I had found this early enough to get in on the fun.

You can, just not necessarily the blanks. All you have to do is order some 1095 or 01 and get after it. I have three others that I have made & two of them are in scales and in the shave rotation. Grind, hack saw, and file away...

Originally Posted by shooter74743

How did you end up doing your hollow work?

I hogged this one out on a 6" bench grinder.
I wouldn't dream of this for the final grind, it's way to fast.
Still haven't sorted that yet but am in negotions with SWMBO for funds for mid range belt grinder. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Originally Posted by Muirtach

My stuff got put on hold for a while do to moves and life,

Tell me about it.
I got a young family which is very rewarding, I'm lucky if I get a couple of hours a week to do the razor stuff. In fact that would be the exception.
Keep on, you will get there eventually.

Joey

So this is what I did today.
I have more pictures that should be uploading from my phone so I can post them up later, but here is a quick peek. I took two of the square points and altered them a bit. the one that stayed the original width was hollowed out on a 4" wheel and looks great while the shorter one is getting a much more wedge-y attitude after shaping on an 8" wheel. The shorter one lost some width after I realized I had my hollow cut in the wrong spot and took the edge down much more thin than I wanted to before heat-treat. Which they should get as soon as the historical razors that are also being worked on get ground down to shape as all of them are the same steel. Depending on time I might get the smiler hollowed out as well too.