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Have been working on pretty much nothing the last few months, life has gotten in the way. Have 2 weeks off starting Wednesday, so hoping to clear up some of the queue.

Since the spine isn't hardened, and the old blade was un-useable, I used a butane torch to heat up the solder and placed the blade in the vice vertically and applied pressure to the tail to lever it...

Nice lines on the file razor. I am a fan.

This is why I ran out of belts.
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A bit of progress on the frameback. Took everything apart, scales going for a soak, spine cleaned up a bit. Thinned the blade down, but ran out of belts.
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New blade for the frameback cut out and rough ground to shape. Will do the detail work with files when I get back at it.

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Traced out the shape on some O1 stock, along with a "handling nub" for HT that will be removed afterwards. I placed it along the spine side of the blade, so any chance of heat build up at the edge...

Separated the spine and blade by putting the blade in a vice and heating it up with a torch. Came out quite easily by pushing down on the tail.

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I'm going to cut the piece a bit bigger than needed, and leave something to hold onto while I thin it on the grinder, then grind off the hand hold before HT. I suspect there should'nt be much post HT...

Picked up some 1/8" O1 last night, its a bit thick, but was the thinnest I could find. Going to take the torch to the old one this weekend and see how stuck in there it is.

Also, thanks to Richard...

I'll try to post some of the WIP pics as I go along on this one, the scales and the spine are in decent condition, the blade will be used as a template/guide to make a new blade.

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Finished grinding last night, now for some scales and honing.
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It took me about 12 hours to get that joke, was not on ball yesterday.

It was getting out of line, had to set an example for the others. Plus I have a spare. :p

Not working on anything right now. Smashed my thumb with a hammer.

Which annoys the crap out of me, I've got 3 razors back from HT and 6 blanks to finish profiling.

Got a few ready to go out for heat treat. A 15/16" square point, a 7/8" French point western kamisori, and a wee kamisori.

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Even though I have more pressing jobs to finish, I felt the need to try an asymetrical grind. I am waiting on an ebay kamisori to use as a reference for geometry, so now I have to wait and see if...

There's that, as well as the "oilfield premium". Basically, anyone that sells/builds for the oil/gas industry (basically everyone here) adds 50% to what the normal rate should be elsewhere.

It's odd, I generally like a 6/8" razor, bit when I started drawing out and shaping it, I eyeballed it and thought "that looks 6/8", turned out it was 15/16". It seems so much smaller for some reason.

I believe so.

I tried to emulate the shape of my Biskmark with this one. the picture angle doesn't really show the shape well.

Sorry, forgot "pics or it didn't happen".

The metal supplier was 3 blocks from my shop, and 3/16" was the widest they had that day, so that's what I went with.

Somehow it is still cheaper to...

Set a bevel on my first razor. goods news is its even, bad news is its a bit wide, back to the grinder, and maybe 2 layers of tape to hone. I was expecting this, as the O1 i used was 3/16" and the...

Some post HT grinding on my first razor.