Thread: Scaleless Damascus Razor for custom work

Hello all -

Another newb with the same interest as the originator of this thread. By happenstance, I found the same website (alabama damascus steel) a couple of days prior to the creation of this thread.

I emailed back and forth a couple of times with the company, who inform me that while they know that several purchasers have made user razors from their stock, their sense that most were being made into display pieces.

I have a little OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) when it comes to searching the Web; this morning, I came across this site:

Messerklinge nanus Damast Rasiermesser Nordisches Handwerk | Details

Unless you sprechen zie deutsch (college German was a half-century and more ago), open using google translate.

xe.com converts 39.50 euros to 50.4x USD.

Despite my grandfather having been a principal at the company which first developed and marketed vanadium alloy steel, I know nothing of metallurgy ("I'm a doctor, not a metallugist"); these are the data provided by the site:

The Rockwell hardness is about 55-60 HRC.
The blade has a hollow ground and is pre-sharpened.
Blade length: 76 mm
Erl: about 64 mm
Total length: 140 mm

Curious to know that the experienced/pros think.


Stuart

in my experience, anything that says it's Damascus and is under $200, probably isn't Damascus. The time and effort to fold that steel isn't cheap, although it would be nice if it was. Good hunting.

Originally Posted by StraightRazorRobot

in my experience, anything that says it's Damascus and is under $200, probably isn't Damascus. The time and effort to fold that steel isn't cheap, although it would be nice if it was. Good hunting.

Further, as soon as someone realizes this sentiment has been expressed, there will be offerings of the SAME product for a price at or above $200 (NOT joking)

Additionally, the statement or claim that, "several purchasers have made user razors from their stock" should offer no confidence. I and many others have sharpened several knives quite well and shaved with them for demonstration purposes. I would suggest that I could probably sharpen a convenience store pocket knife well enough to shave with it...but it would be a RATHER uncomfortable shave, and there would have to be a fairly good chunk of bet money trading hands when we were all done.

Not only did I shave with this knife, I did so dry...looking at the results...would you want to?

Now i'm curious about that site one, so any input would be much obliged. i understand the part about if its under 200 its probably not real, but would using machines possibly lower the cost to that around about number?