Thread: Anyone forging straight razor?

Originally Posted by spazola

Wayne Goddard's $50 Knife Shop is a great intro into knife making. There are lots of different ways to get the job done you can spend a lo, or get by with little. It just depends on how you want to go about it.

Charlie

stop no no no no
the HT info in that book is not even close to good to go

we are talkign about the most extreme form of knife the HT is no place to (for lack of better terms half ass)

no then if you get it to learn how to shape knives then sure but they are knives not razors (i have had ppl in the shop to learn and i had to unteach soo much from that dam book )

bladeforums.com has lots of geat info in the shoptalk

Originally Posted by L R Harner

bladeforums.com has lots of geat info in the shoptalk

I didn't get what you mean. You mean it's a good place to start/check?

Originally Posted by ferroburak

I didn't get what you mean. You mean it's a good place to start/check?

Yes, geat = great

Originally Posted by L R Harner

stop no no no no
the HT info in that book is not even close to good to go

we are talkign about the most extreme form of knife the HT is no place to (for lack of better terms half ass)

...bladeforums.com has lots of geat info in the shoptalk

I'd like to know specifically where the heat treatment stuff in Wayne's book is wrong for a beginner using very simple tooling. I think ferroburak was asking for that kind of help.

I'm not going to argue about how important heat treatment is, but if you've found some printed error, I would think that Wayne deserves a chance to know that, and the publisher, as well as the rest of us. Rather than just hanging here waiting and not knowing what the problems are because of a hard undeveloped claim, we should be working on correcting errors, eh?

You've got all the time in the world to build your case. I'm going out to the shop and re-read those chapters myself, and check my margin notes. And I don't want to go to some other forum to dig up answers, neither should anyone else have to. Butch you made the claim here, make a better case for your arguments here, please.

if you think that lawnmower blades quenched in his goop is good info then go right ahead

to see him tell new ppl that thay can use scrap steel to make a knife when know knife steel is under 5 bucks a Lb

the goop that is made of tranny oil bacon fat and orther stuff that will go ranside

now that said they way he teaches how to build tools and some of the tricks is good info

i jsut think that the 50$ shop cant be done in this day in age to make even more then a mildly good knife let alone a razor

hell safety glasses and a ressporator will run you near 50$ let alone making any tools

For me it was a great book. It peaked my curiosity and made me want to learn more. It was an introduction blade-smithing.


Wayne Goddard's attitude toward the craft was the most important thing I took away from this book.


Did the book show me how to make a razor? No, but it got me started down that path.


Charlie

and to add
wheni started i knew what it ment to not have much $$
i picked up a 4x36 belt grinder new and made a few knives from files
then picked up some known steel and made 3 or 4 blades and had then heat treated by the local tool and die maker
i had to barrow a drill press and the only other tool i had was my dremmel

the knives were crude but they worked well (my sister still used one most every day )

i kept saving as i made stuff and made my first 2 big buys a evenheat kiln and a used LN2 dewer
it took me more then a year then to buy any other toools but i was loving what i was doing

My first razors were made with a 4x36 belt grinder a wet grinding wheel & drill press. See this link: http://straightrazorpalace.com/forge...ake-razor.html

I have two other blades on their way back from being heat treated from a member in this forum. What I am getting at is that you can get by on the basics & an open mind. You have had several real sharp guys already post on your thread. Ask questions, plan your work, work your plan. If I can do it, anyone can....

Originally Posted by spazola

hitting anything with a hammer is fun

Charlie

edit: except my thumb

Try telling that to my wife. She still complains about that knot on her head.

Originally Posted by cannonfodder

Try telling that to my wife. She still complains about that knot on her head.

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