Thread: thinking of starting to make custom straight razors

Great advice Dr Dalton. I know of boxer but not dc blades. Will follow up on more searching. As for grinding and such I'm a big perfectionist and I know I can achieve to get out a quality piece. Time is really wat i dont have in hand Having 2 kids under 4. Getting feed back from u guys here really inspires me to move ahead and take on this journey.

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You have posed a somewhat interesting question. It is a very complex process, one that not only requires a fair outlay in cash, but also there are other things that you will need. Probably the most important of those will be an experienced mentor, that is already a master of cutlery making. You will also need time to master the trade. In the end if you considered both your outlay of time to get to a place of marketable skill and the tools of the trade and a place to work them, in order to actually make money at it, I expect that you will need to make more than just razors. I live in an area where there is an abundance of carvers, caring in wood, precious metals and stone. If I were to go down that same path, I would expect that my bread and butter would be in carving tools, not razors, but my passion would be fine edge tools of all sorts. There are very large blade smith gatherings in Canada and the US, I expect similar things happen Down Under. Go check them out meet some people, perhaps find a mentor and begin to dabble, so you can better understand the paths to your journey.