Thread: Jacobs Razors???

Originally Posted by NoseWarmer

MykelDR... Thanks for the thread...

holli4pirating... Thanks for your hard work... It's saving me $$$ in the long run...

You are very welcome. That is what it's all about.

Mykel

Originally Posted by MykelDR

No worries. Pretty amusing thread. Especially post #25 where you have included a copy of an email from the seller, Jeff. Jeff finishes his email with with no less than 14 kisses (in x format of course) directed at you. Hehehe MAN LOVE

On a side note... I saw that in Buddel's last post he was going to retemper, regrind and update. There is no update yet, but there is a gallery collection of a damascus razor on his website that looks like a potential suspect. I have PM'd him to find out how that went.

First, I don´t know the Jacob´s razor - but - they look like that they come from the same source, than the other pakistan razors (imo).

Here is the one, with I played arround:





The back of the blade is to tin for a 7/8, the scales are much to heavy and the grind is unfinished. So it was possible to re-harden and temper the blade.

Here is the blade after the regrind:



The filework on the back was also to sharp, so it "grinded" the strop. I rounded them to fix this.

Here is the finished razor with simple ebony scales (i dont puted too much skill and time in this project ):



After that the steel was hard and honeable. It´s possible to shave with the razor. In my opinion the quality of the steel is ok, but not very good or outstanding. After the process you will get a average razor with a good optic. But the qualitiy of a real custom damascus razor is much more higher. Without optical aspect this razor is for me in a price range from about 50,- Euro. Without a new heattreating it is grap.

Buddel,

Looks great... I know that looks don't make it shave...

Great to see you could make something that will shave out of what was previously only a poorly finished piece of eye candy. It would be interesting to see if the Pakistani razor manufactures could put the energy into making a working blade that they put into an overly complicated scale design and fancy Damascus steel. It seems that shaving ability is forgotten in the quest to make a something that will sell.