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I think the badger is fantastic to use for shaving. Esp right after eating bambi with gravy and baked potatoes.

Black MOP kirinite at usaknifemaker?
That is where I get mine.

I made the 2nd razor from this lot of steel. The buyer requested a more classical design this time, more like a Sheffield razor. Truth be told, I am lucky I could make this one at all. Working...

I charge what I think my work is worth, compared to other people in this business.
Enough people think my work is worth that, that I see no need to drop my prices.
After all, I started a business,...

Sure. Though I quoted a very normal price for a normal custom blade.
I had the impression that they figured it would hundred and something dollars, and got sticker shock.

Well, so far nothing definite regarding the provenance. I did get 2 offers to buy it from within that group, but upon contact it turned out they had no idea about the price for a custom razor :)...

When you touch a piece of steel to a running grinder, it creates sparks.
If the steel is soft (because it has no carbon or it has not been hardened) it creates very few sparks, and none at all at...

Not at present. I have sent pictures to a koryu group where some sword experts reside. Hopefully that will turn up something.

The first one, closest to my calipers, was the worst in terms of rust and pitting. I decided to use that one as a testcase, to see how I could best work this steel, and to get my feet wet with the...

Some time ago I was asked to build 2 Tamahagane razors, made from the nakago (tang) of old Japanese blades. I have 4 pieces to work with. This project is different from my previous tamahagane build...