Thread: 1st attempt making a razor

Thanks fellas so far for very positive feedback from such experienced members, it means a lot to me and very encouraging. For Deler1um will get a picture of profile up tonight SWMBO permitting. SWMBO got me fully booked for next few moths on house projects, but should be able to get forge built. She goes to parents for week in May so that's my heat treat slot. I know it's kinda going about things the slow way, but please feel free to chuckle at my expense.

Nice, very nice. Has it been heat treated yet?

For Deler1um,

Here's plan views.

What did you do your jumps with? I've been thinking about using an older wood chisel for bottom, but would like to do "something" to the top where the fingers rest as well.

For jimps, I started them off with junior hacksaw then used a small v section modelers file. When wide enough I chages to flat file to create the rectangular section. Putting them in individually I found a bit tricky getting spacing even but I wanted them quite chunky for this razor, they're not perfect. Will invest in checkering file for my next razor and go for finer jimps.

That looks really nice, I like how the tail/tang swoops like that. You've put a lot of time into that I can tell; and, if you haven't, don't tell me, just keep things simple for me... haha.

The first thing I noticed about it was all of the notches and jimps in it. Not that they look bad, I like them a lot. They give it a medieval shredder-like look... don't know how else to say that.

Thanks for posting the progress!!

Thanks,
Didn't want it to look to delicate, I'm a sucker for spine work so couldn't resist, I realise it's not to everyones taste. That said I will mock my next design from hardboard and fit into tempory one piece scales to get feel and idea of balance for where to put tang hole. I do like good visibility of heel at times during shave so have a habit of putting 1st two fingers either side of the scales on tang, the curling tail captures finger nicely so it feels safe and worked out pretty good at this point. I love Robert Williams work also, so may be a few influences there?

Built forge (near enough), what a mess SWMBO went balistic. Suffice to say wore a respirator, not to sure what refactory dust does to lungs. Chamber has good coating of ITC100 not shown in picture.
Anyone have any thoughts where to put burner hole? should I be more on muffle or chamber with burner? Advice welcome.