Thread: 5th Annual North Central Texas Razor Meet at Charlie Lewis Razor Workshop - 2017

While he regretfully did not make any blades he was there to support all who did or needed help with honing.




The look I get when he watches me hone.


Knob Creek


Worlds greatest scope for bevel inspection.
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Scott and his forge

The guys spent a lot of time looking into the gates of Hell at 2200f

Thanks to everyone for helping those of us who could not be there, feel like we got the readers digest version. I hope next year has me in a position to attend.

Thanks to all involved! I appreciate your efforts.
~Richard

Thanks for sharing all the photographs.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Thanks to everyone for helping those of us who could not be there, feel like we got the readers digest version. I hope next year has me in a position to attend.

I certainly hope so.

In between the Damascus forging I made a couple of kitchen knives when no one was using the forge. One of them is this one. The handle is a bit of frivolous experimenting. I did ascertain that it fits the hand pretty well. After forging I discovered the body had some fatigue cracks due to forging at too low temperature but I finished it anyway. I did an edge quench in water and gave it a workshop finish. I gave it to TC as a thank you for the grilling, and he gave it to Tom Dujardin iirc because he loved it so much.



I tested it on a piece of hardwood plank I found in Charlie's box of offcuts.

Here is a picture of one of the billets I made during my demo.

I started off with a stack of 5 layers, and forgewelded that together.
Then I cut it lengthwise in 2 long pieces. One piece was folded in half and forgewelded again and then twisted lengthwise and squared up again.
The other part was also cut in 2 pieces, to make a stack of 3 pieces with the twisted piece in the middle.
The was then welded up again.



After that, I twisted it again and swuared it up. I don't have a good pic of the result because the pattern is getting too hard to see without heat treatment and polish. I will turn it into a knife and post the results here when it is ready. It should be a lengthwise spiral, with one of the arms itself being a spiral pattern.