Thread: What do you do with old junk straight razors?

I have bought a couple straight razors over the last month or so just for the scales. The razors themselves have bad rust and/or chips. Have you guys seen anything special made out of this types of blades? I am just trying to think of a way to re-use these in some other way before I toss them into the sharps container at work.

Along the lines I am thinking are grinding them down into knives or welding them into something...

Originally Posted by ZackW

I have bought a couple straight razors over the last month or so just for the scales. The razors themselves have bad rust and/or chips. Have you guys seen anything special made out of this types of blades? I am just trying to think of a way to re-use these in some other way before I toss them into the sharps container at work.

Some folks make re-enacting black powder gun loading patch knives from the thicker blades.


Have fun!!
~Richard

Re-purpose if you can,or just throw them in the re-cycle bin.

Only your imagination and talent limits what you can do with them. You can make an awl, sewing needles pickes of various kinds,toothpickes take em out back for target practice-just for starters.

maybe we should have a thread on what to do with retired straights.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Only your imagination and talent limits what you can do with them. You can make an awl, sewing needles pickes of various kinds,toothpickes take em out back for target practice-just for starters.
maybe we should have a thread on what to do with retired straights.

As in opposition to what type persons??
~Richard

As many of us feel the steel of vintage razors is better than that of those made these days it seems a waste to chuck honed down razors. I am not a metallurgist so I don't know whether it is possible to melt a few spines and forge a new razor.

How much steel is actually left is the question...

I have been mulling this over for some time since I joined last July. I think there should be a central location for everyone to send their junk razors and discarded razors so we can accumulate enough metal to commission a sculptor to do a very large 3D version of the SRP logo razor and install it in front of Lynn's place.

I put this forth for discussion.

One possibility that I havd considered is keeping the tang portion of a few junkers that are different widths. These can be used as mock up tangs when crafting a set of scales. I know I have seen some pictures on one of Glens posts with some wood ones he made to do the same thing. Pretty sure I saw a tutorial with someone using some plastic ones for the same purpose.