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.

Cut off the blade at the shoulder, polish the tang and use it as a key chain- lol

Ok maybe that not the best idea, but it's an idea none the less.

Someday I will finish my clock project

I give them to a wood carver friend of mine, he makes small carving tools from them.

Years ago he used to buy good razors from the antique store and grind them into carving tools, Gasp! I have talked him out of that practice. I give him all my old scrap razors.

Charlie