Thread: Bruno's Blade Club

Originally Posted by Bruno

Looking good. It's an interesting design to make the scales the same shape as the blade.

Thanks Bruno. It's a testament to your blade, since I wanted to emphasise the shape as much as possible. The idea is to have almost a mirror image when open to 180 degrees for stropping.

Great blades guys and thanks to Bruno. A definite win-win

Can't wait to be able to post my bruno blade pictures. Gonna be a good one.

Good to hear you did end up getting one David, what design did you go with any early pics yet?

Finally finished sanding my blade last night to 5000 grit then autosol polished
Came out pretty good i think for close to 18-20 hours all up so far from start including changes to the tang shape.
Now the scales since my search for 6" dyed bone has not worked out yet I am stuck between black horn in the draw or waiting for white bone in the mail both with brass wedges ah the decisions of the lowly razor worker.
Note: hand sanding from 80 grit sucks but well wealth it
Makes me definitely think a little buff is required if I go down the path again

Handsanding from that point does indeed take some time, but the results are wonderful!

I WILL own a Bruno blade some time soon!

Originally Posted by Substance

... including changes to the tang shape.

I made this one after I saw some of the changes you were considering: I call it my 'alien' design
It will get a Spanish point of course, and it needs to be ground so that the blade hollows almost touch the notches on the spine.

Well, after much procrastination here is my BrunoBlade. I'd intended to scale with carbon fiber, but I didn't have any stock large enough. I did have some acrylic however, so that's what I did. Probably will hollow out the scales a bit, either a slot or a series of holes. I found it necessary to shorten the tail a bit, simply in the interest of ergonomics.

And for the good stuff: the first shave. The blade took an edge nicely and was very well behaved on the hones. Stropping is a bit slow, but hey, it's a big razor. The shave was very gentle and smooth, just like an old Sheffield wedge. It's a bit of a bear to handle, but the blade felt sweet against my face. A good shaver.

[QUOTE=entropy1049;1320056]Well, after much procrastination here is my BrunoBlade. I'd intended to scale with carbon fiber, but I didn't have any stock large enough. I did have some acrylic however, so that's what I did. Probably will hollow out the scales a bit, either a slot or a series of holes. I found it necessary to shorten the tail a bit, simply in the interest of ergonomics.

And for the good stuff: the first shave. The blade took an edge nicely and was very well behaved on the hones. Stropping is a bit slow, but hey, it's a big razor. The shave was very gentle and smooth, just like an old Sheffield wedge. It's a bit of a bear to handle, but the blade felt sweet against my face. A good shaver.[QUOTE=entropy1049;1320056]

Need to see a pic with it full open or at a 90 ....please?. It's a shame about the tail cropping, R.R.A (Razor rights activist) wouldn't like this. I have an almost identical razor on it's way or preparing for travel to me. So I'm stealing idea 's from you