Thread: Blasphemy!

A full wedge or 1/4 hollow would make a knife that should not have the problems of breaking that you would have with a full hollow.

Better to make something usefull out of it than just leave it to rust in a drawer or throw it in the trash.

Zacsdaddy

edited to add: Here's a thread I started last year about just this subject.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...ed-blades.html

i dont like it one bit and i'm a knife and razor lover Torrey's are one of my favorite razors what a waste of a great razor

Ya'll are really not going to want to see this.

Making a Carving Knife from Little Shavers

Wood carvers have been making knives from straight razors for years. So you're not just competing against other straight razor shavers and restorers on ebay.

Sorry for the bad news. I've actually thought of converting one of my broken blades to a carver just to use it for something other than a drawer filler.

Zacsdaddy

Unfortunately here in Russia, too, often from razor blades to make the carving ...
http://rezbaderevo.ru/topic.php?topic_id=146
Even when I bought my first razor salesman in the store said that they are buying mainly for that ...

Originally Posted by Zacsdaddy

Ya'll are really not going to want to see this.

Making a Carving Knife from Little Shavers

Wood carvers have been making knives from straight razors for years. So you're not just competing against other straight razor shavers and restorers on ebay.

Sorry for the bad news. I've actually thought of converting one of my broken blades to a carver just to use it for something other than a drawer filler.

Zacsdaddy

On the up side, even that article says

[FONT='Comic Sans MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]If I can take a quote from Harold Enlow, "don't turn a $100.00 razor into a $30.00 carving knife". The point is; that straight razors are very collectable and some are highly prized and valuable. It is a good idea to do a little research on the subject of razor collecting before you begin making knives.[/FONT]

The form and finish of the knife are pretty much OK, but I don't approve of the use of an old razor for this kind of knife at all.

I can see the steel of a straight razor being used for a small hobby knife or one meant for cutting leather. In other words, a light duty knife which will not encounter any heavy stress.

The reason should be pretty obvious to any of you who have ever dropped a razor and seen it shatter when it hit the ground. Straight razors are generally more brittle than knives and unless that blade has been (re) heat treated it might fly apart with potentially dangerous consequences if used in a prying or heavy cutting situation. I don't even like to think about it.

Anyone that uses a knife, any knife, as a crow bar will soon learn it's the most expensive and least effective crow bar there is. They also make lousy screwdrivers.

Zacsdaddy

In a previous life I went to evening classes in classical guitar making. The luthier teaching us used a knife made from an old razor to shape the heel at the base of the neck: not such a bad use for a wedge in poor condition I reckon, but by and large I can't approve of such activities. It's not as if really nice knife blanks are hard to get hold of, after all.