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Thank you all so much for your advice in this stuff. I wouldn't have a clue where to begin if it wasn't for everyone who's posted here. This weekend I am going to the scrapyard and will try to find...

How do you place the pipe? Lengthwise across the fire? Or vertically, and put the blade tip-down?

Duly noted, thank you. I'm a real sucker for symmetry, and I accidentally bumped the fresh 36 belt on the spine and muffed it up - so I just had to take both to full-height. In fact, I only...

Oh boy, that can't be more true.

When I first started stropping knives, I DESTROYED a lovely vintage horsehide strop. Looking back, I'd like to kick my tail, but if it had not been for that...

My issue with O1 is just that it's so expensive for me. I'm just a lowly teenager, woe is me. Wages for people my age are pretty pitiful, and I just figured that 1095 would be economic to start off...

Oil quench - 150 degree canola. My issue was that since the blade was so gosh-darn thin, by the time I checked for non-magnetic, it had already begun to cool.

Just decided I'd use the whole situation and make light of it. I pinned the blade to two unshaped pieces of scrap wood, and told my buddy I was sending him a razor.

If we can't laugh and learn...

Well... Disaster struck.. I did 3 HT cycles.

The razor warped like crazy. However, I think with a little finessing I might be able to straighten it back out. I might not keep it as a shaver, but...

Woah! A reply from the master himself! Just wanted to say that your videos are what made me get off my rump - and also what got me started in SR shaving to begin with. Big thanks for that, sir.

I...

So here's how it's been for old Cornicus lately.

Work. 3 hours of reading about razors. Sleep.

Repeat.

But.. Today (or yesterday), the stars aligned, and I had a completely free Saturday. I...