Thread: Really custom made razors

This is how I see this custom razor.

10Pups, gugi and davorvfr, thank you very much for your comments.
I really find them very useful. You highlighted some issues that I wasn't aware of.


I am flexible regarding the blade design, but not so much when it comes to the symbols.

I understand the need for changing the "stress points" davorvfr, and I would have liked to be flexible with that but unfortunately I can't. These symbols are very specific, have a particular meaning and remain like this form thousands of years. Changing them would change the hole idea.

Look at some examples. The angles are always 90 degrees:





and this last one is from a newer building in Manhattan:

Then you can go with flat steel and hard electroetch on tang to get pattern you like, otherwise I think is not possible and smart to do.

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Or it is possible to make some steel stamps and when seel is hot push that pattern deep in steel.

Originally Posted by davorvfr

Then you can go with flat steel and hard electroetch on tang to get pattern you like, otherwise I think is not possible and smart to do.

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Or it is possible to make some steel stamps and when seel is hot push that pattern deep in steel.

I like these ideas a lot better. Or, you could find a jeweler/engraver/metal carver to carve the designs into the tang. I also recommend abandoning any design that will have a sharp angle (stress riser) in a place that will be heat treated.

There are some excellent metal carvers around. Bill Ellis comes to mind because I have seen his carving skills on straights, knives and rifles. I have no idea if he is still in the business.

Some Ellis carving and filing. He has done much more exotic work than this shows. I will probably get yelled at for posting these.

Thank you very much Bob.

In the beginning I believed that it was not so complicated to do it because the symbols are simple and easy to make.
But now, reading all these posts I understand it is very complicated.
I am a bit confused.
Thank you all for the useful posts. They help me a lot.

Originally Posted by lz6

Some Ellis carving and filing. He has done much more exotic work than this shows. I will probably get yelled at for posting these.

No, you won't. At least not for any reason I can think of.