Thread: First attempt at razors - WIP

Hi there.
I had been looking around when I stumbled into Tim Zowadas' damascus straight razors (Zowada Gallery)
Especially this one

I decided to make my own, of couse, in damascus steel. At the annual knife competition in the Danish Knife Guild, the "special topic class" is folders... And a Straight Razor is a knife that folds

I decided that it would be a good idea to start with a piece of single-steel and wait with the damascus for later, for more experience. So I simply went to the forge and started hammering. I annealed the finished blade and started grinding.

At first, I own a large belt grinder, contact wheel approximately 8", that's 20,1 cm. I needed a jig to fix the blade to, when grinding. I cut it from an old piece of angle iron and shaped it a little.


This is how the blade is supposed to sit on the jig.


Blade clamped to the jig, facing the wrong direction, just for the fans


Then started grinding (I usually uses two hands Blame it on the camera)